ABSTRACT
Dermatologists regularly recommend these products for tanning as a safe alternative to UV exposure. They may be used to camouflage some skin irregularities such as leg spider veins. Light to medium complected patients with vitiligo who show increased contrast with the vitiliginous areas with natural or unavoidable tanning in their normal skin may also benefit (29,30). They may even provide some protection for individuals with certain photosensitivity disorders (31). Protection of uninvolved skin by DHA during psoralen-UVA treatment (PUVA) allows higher UVA exposures to be tolerated, with fewer treatments resulting in faster clearing known as TurboPUVA (32).
