To not use sun cream on my toddler?

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Toddler has brown Asian skin and doesn't tan or brown easily. Also has vitamin D deficiency.

AIBU to not use sun cream on him?

People with dark skin, who live in sunless climates like the UK will burn. My husband is Brazilian, he looks north african/middle eastern. He spent six years out of the sun, working on offices in UK and northern US in winter. He went an olive white colour. Five days after arriving in Brazil the idiot was sunburned. Sun exposure requires common sense. Vitamin D can be found in food too, like oily fish. So good to look at diet as well as sun exposure.

sashh Inuits eat fish rich in vitamin D. The vitamin D in their diet stops them producing less melanin. That's the theory anyway.

As tomomat says Inuits are easily explained and just an exception to the rule due to their diet of vit D rich fish- they didn't need to adapt their skins to absorb as much because their diets were so rich in it.

I would suggest allowing controlled sun exposure, but protect him during the hottest hours (11-3)

he only needs and hour a day exposure to generate enough vitamin D