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Coconut oil and many suntan lotions do a poor job of filtering out these dangerous rays but there are available many lotions and creams which effectively screen most of the UV rays.

These may be used in different strengths, depending on whether you want complete protection or want some rays to pass through and allow you to build up a tan. Ask your chemist — he has a list prepared by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Anti-Cancer Council.

The sun can burn the skin and this causes the same trouble as any other burn. A first degree burn is where there is reddening without blister formation. This can be painful and incapacitating. Toxic products can form in the damaged skin, be absorbed and lead to malaise, fever and the inability to work.

The delicate skins of children and older people are more likely to suffer damage. Plenty of fluids, rest and the application of cold compresses will help to relieve this sunburn.

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Displacement of the pelvic organs and the laxity of the vaginal walls may cause a woman to lose interest in sex, or pressure during intercourse may cause pain.

Repeated labors, particularly difficult ones, are believed to stretch and weaken all those structures which support the uterus. Tears through the lower vagina and perineum (the area between vagina and rectum) can weaken the pelvic floor and later lead to prolapse.

This is why most doctors who deliver babies often carry out an episiotomy by making a cut in this area to enlarge the opening as the baby is born, rather than allow a large head to tear it in an uncontrolled manner.

After menopause, the tissues may be weakened by the lack of circulating oestrogen, the female hormone. When the uterus falls down, it causes a feeling of pressure and discomfort, which may be worse when the woman strains by coughing or carrying heavy loads.

If the cervix protrudes, it may become inflamed and ulcerated by rubbing against the underclothes.

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