Is this neglect?

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I have reported the earlier post.

There is a big difference between freedom of speech, debate, and just posting false information.

Was she maybe indoors at nursery today but out over the weekend and got burned? (Matches better w peeling already & the fact that no nursery would let her out in the sun minus a hat and SC).
your friend’s deluded and neglecting her kid though. Her body, her choice, but you have to protect your kid?!

No because people have social media and the stupid Yuka app and think vaccinating for measles is poison and that “nasties” in spf are causing skin cancer
honestly
do what you want to yourself but vaccinate and put spf on your kids

I’m a redhead and burn at 10am and I’m so thankful my mum stuck up for me even at school to say “no she needs shade, no she won’t be outside on sports day all day, and no she needs spf constantly”

On the other hand, I have incredibly fair skin and have never burned in the 30 years I’ve used it.

I have the type of skin that burns if I even think about the sun. I was born to be in the bogs and marshes in the rain 🤣

My DP is very olivey and grew up in the south of France… guess which one of us never wore sun cream growing up. And which one has had skin cancer as a result.

While there are many people that are sensitive to sun creams there are so many options out there. Surely people have been using UV protection and suncreams for long enough now for us all to realise that the risk of sun damage causing cancer far outweighs the risks of using some cream?

Send her links for non toxic suncream for kids or if you have the budget buy her a bottle to ‘try’ see if that will encourage her to use it

Yes I agree, did the nursery actually let her outside? It sounds like the child has burned over the weekend for her skin to be peeling today. Peeling usually doesn't happen immediately. That poor child, now suffering the consequences of a stupid parent!

I use the Yuka app and all the screen shots are of suncream that have no known nasties in them. All widely available in the supermarket.
If your friend is able to read then she is able to buy sun cream.

I’m not sure the nursery is at fault here. OP, how do you know that the sun burn you saw was from today? It was equally hot yesterday. Could the poor little mite have been suffering and peeling from days of exposure?

That’s not how any nursery works on days like today, same for if there’s heavy hail stone/snow they don’t let them wonder out in just a nappy and freeze

The nursery should have just put suncream on her, so they are partly to blame here, but your friend is well and truly stupid. She is neglecting her child.
In the interest of being a good friend, say something!!

I work in a nursery.. no child was allowed out today.. it was just so hot

It’s not just suncream.

A combination of factors has lead to an all time low level of public trust in science, conventional medicine and huge increase in conspiracy theories from social media. In part driven by algorithms as well as those messages just being amplified by the easy reach of those platforms.

It’s really concerning to me people getting their information from SM think it’s fact. That’s fine if you to question ‘big pharma’. You need to equally questioning the source, evidence and algorithm that served this fact up to you.

I’m all for scientific debate. That is 💯 not what this is.

Ah it’s the new think on social media
saw a video of someone putting SPF on her husbands back and all the comments were
”you’ll get the life insurance”
”how to get skin cancer 101”
”the spf will kill him”

Toddlers can't be left to go in and out as they please, that's irresponsible and ridiculous.

She and the nursery have just doubled that poor child's chances of getting melanoma

Link

Have you got a peer reviewed resource that shows this?

Our pre school don't allow children out unless have suncream on

What is the procedure at the nursery. At the one my kids attended (but we are going back 20+ years) parents were asked to apply it at home and they would reapply during the day. The nursery my kids attended had a big outdoors ethos and they would spend all their time outside in hot weather.

Could it be that the mum had no communicated her "no suncream" policy properly and the nursery were under the impression that it had been applied at home and it was only when they went to reapply it that they realised there wasn't any.

Proven?

State your references and facts else you are very much contributing TO cancer not solving it.

Scientific debate - I’m all for that. Regurgitating absolute BS people read on SM should be called out for what it is.

Have you heard the recent BBC podcast on cancer conspiracy where a young woman died from treatable lung cancer due to a nutcase mother whose conspiracies also started with sun cream.

My DS wouldn't wear suncream for a couple of years so he wore long sleeved tops, long trousers and a hat that covered the back of his neck. And UV suits for swimming/beach. It is neglect, yes, sunburn is painful and can be dangerous.

There is not a single scrap of evidence that suncreams cause cancer.

There is an abundance of evidence that exposure to UV from the sun causes cancer.

I don’t know a single nursery who would allow a child outside without suncream on a sunny day.

Do you have skin that burns very easily? I do and famously got burned on my shoulders under a parasol, wearing a cotton shirt and slathered in factor 50 suncream.

My mum didn't believe in suncream either in the 1960s/70s but I had to have a basal cell carcinoma removed from my face in my 50s.