To worry for this poor baby!

[Iamonlyhuman]

My DP's brother has an 18 month old that and since the baby has been born, they've been to Spain a few times (in the heat).

I was talking about sun cream the other day to her and she doesn't bother other than a little F15! I asked why and she said "Well it's not really the done thing where I am from and my Mum never bothered with it with me, nor did my Nanna use it for her children".

SERIOUSLY, just because you're olive skinned and from a Spanish background does not mean you can let a child's skin colour change. It's a form of burning.

Literally, she let her DD play on the beach in just a swimming nappy and a hat!

Isn't this a form of I hate to say it neglect?

Some people still get a bit of colour regardless of how much you smother them in suncream.

Both my parents and I tan, regardless of how much suncream we wear. I can sit in the shade wearing Factor 50 and I'll still have some colour to me at the end of the day.

I think as long as she's putting suncream on and keeping baby out of the midday heat, it's okay. As long as suncream is re-applied regularly it doesn't really matter which factor you use anyway. In fact, using Factor 50 can be more dangerous because you put it on and don't bother again because of how high the factor is. Re-applying Factor 15 every two hours is more efficient than putting Factor 50 on once or twice.

we are only in JUNE. It's not the time of the year where you will get the strongest sun yet.

Do you have any knowledge of how the earth goes round the sun? Of how the days get longer and then shorter again? Do you actually know when midsummer is?

UV index is highest in late June not surprisingly as that's when we are closest to the sun, in the northern hemisphere. Nothing to do with how hot it is. Nothing at all.

Interestingly given the previous poster's comments about people from the Netherlands being tanned, they have high rates of death from skin cancer - number 9 in the world compared with our number 25 and Spain's number 49.

Erm, the earth is closest to the sun in (northern) winter, drspouse.

It's the axis tilt towards the sun that you mean, I think?

DS is like me just a glimpse of the sun and he's brown, you should see his hair. People pay fortunes to get highlights like that..

DD on the other hand is like my husband (who's from South Africa) and has the skin tone of a raw potato.

Really don't like putting sunscreen on them all the time, so long sleeves, out of midday sun and hats are my main forms of prevention.

I knew someone who got skin cancer on the inside of their skin [shocked]... It's not all about exposure to the sun

Bird oops yes, anyway my knowledge of physics is clearly no better than the PP!

a slap of F15 and a hat!

So the parents (because there are two of them, not just mum) are taking precautions against the sun, just not to the extent that you would. Has the child ever burned?

ive seen many people with skin cancer all didnt use suncream as it was 70's and 80s when noone thought anything of it

a doctor has told me any change to skin colour is bad and an increased risk of cancer

but they do need sun in small doses

its a false sense of security to think suncreams are bad for u -all this nonsense about whats in it-i put suncream on all the time andim fine