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to be horrified at this story in our local paper?

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 16:24

www.theargus.co.uk/news/8182851.Five_month_old_baby_suffers_horror_burns_on_sunny_Brighton_be ach/

I sincerely hope it's the local press over-egging as usual.

Despite this I've still seen a tiny baby today being pushed along with no hood on the buggy - even if she was smothered in suncream she still had no hat and the sun was in her eyes. It's worse here as we're on the coast so the windburn is as bad as the sunburn!

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 16:28

Arse.

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Pattertwig · 25/05/2010 16:29

I just heard that on our local radio station - sounds utterly horrific...

TulipsInTheSunshine · 25/05/2010 16:33

here

Ds1 was 7/8 months old when he got so badly burned on his face he blistered. It was April, not that hot and he was barely in the sun, I had a towel draped over the buggy and we were only walking home from the pool, 20/30 mins.

Turns out he just has bizarrely delicate skin and that combined with residual chlorine on his skin from the pool caused severe burns.

Yes the mother may have been drinking and chatting while her child burned with no cream on, or it may have been a particularly nasty way to discover her has very sensitive skin. If you tan easily yourself and rarely burn it doesn't even cross your mind that a bit of sun could do such damage

herbietea · 25/05/2010 16:34

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ShinyAndNew · 25/05/2010 16:36

I'm wondering why PCSO's had to take the boy for medical attention. Why had the mother not noticed he was badly burned and sought help herself?

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 16:39

Shiny, that's what I wondered. I think it was our seafront officers/lifeguards who took him - perhaps the mother did not realise how bad it was getting. But the child must've been distressed and hot.

Tulips your poor DS . Hope he is all recovered now.

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TulipsInTheSunshine · 25/05/2010 16:46

It doesn't actually say anywhere what severity the burns were does it? There's a huge differance between 20% third degree burns and 20% slight reddening.

Likely as it is that it was a case of neglect I don't think it's fair to assume that's the case, it could as easily be the press trying to make a story out of nothing.

flootshoot... he's fine as long as he's slathered in factor 50 and ordered into the shade as much as possible . He's almost 4 now and hasn't burned since, in fact he seems to be developing a bit of a tan despite the factor 50 this year so hopefully his skin is toughening up with age.

toccatanfudge · 25/05/2010 16:48

I started a thread on this earlier - the BBC news says "The Royal Sussex Hospital said 40% of his body surface area was burnt."

link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8703596.stm\here}

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 16:49

Glad to hear that Tulip - I burn in about 10 minutes so I can sympathise!

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jenduff · 25/05/2010 16:50

OMFG that is awful poor baby

toccatanfudge · 25/05/2010 16:51

try again

TulipsInTheSunshine · 25/05/2010 16:51

although, if bbc is to be believed it was severe burning. poor lad.

The awful thing about sunburn is it keeps on developing after the person comes in from the sun. ds1 looked fine when i got him home, and hour later he was burned red, another hour and there were blisters.

If it was bad enough on the beach to be visable to the PCSO's i guess it got alot worse over the following hours

TulipsInTheSunshine · 25/05/2010 16:51

snap

southeastastra · 25/05/2010 16:52

why is this on aibu? are you expecting someone to say yes you are being unreasonable??

toccatanfudge · 25/05/2010 16:52

it would be "nice" (not really but ykiwm) to think that this is a case of horribly discovering your child has extremely sensitive skin, but tbh I don't think it sounds like that

HecateQueenOfWitches · 25/05/2010 17:00

40% burns AND skin starting to blister. If you don't notice that then there is something seriously wrong with you.

The article does not report that the mother is blind so I am assuming that there is no physical problem that means she was unable to see her baby's skin blistering.

fabat40 · 25/05/2010 17:04

The poor thing! I'm so careful with my two DSs. I have olive skin and tan easily, but my DH has pale skin and burns as soon as the son looks at him. I'm hoping my two DSs have my skin but meanwhile I am being sooooo careful!

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 17:05

No I suppose not southeastastra, but this is the board I post on most often so I didn't really think of that....

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flootshoot · 25/05/2010 17:06

I was kind of hoping that someone would come on and tell me the press had got it all wrong!

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mamatomany · 25/05/2010 17:06

My own mother parked her baby out in the sun with the raincover over it for protection luckily they survived with just burnt skin could have been worse, some people are just utterly stupid.

nymphadora · 25/05/2010 17:07

Just heard this on national radio.

Pikelit · 25/05/2010 17:11

The Argus weren't exaggerating which, admittedly, is unusual. But I'm afraid that the sight of horrendously pink, burning children is commonplace down here. Quite why Sussex sun is presumed to be weaker than that in London I don't know. But what I do know is that it isn't sensible to rely on sun cream as a means of keeping your child safe from burning.

southeastastra · 25/05/2010 17:13

oh see what you mean floot

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