Uncanny likeness to a drumstick lollipop

[Scandichic]

Oh for the love of God! Spent 5 hours outside with the kids walking around the local forest and eating a picnic. At 10:30am it was sunny but chilly (10 degrees) . I have just got undressed and notice that all of my face, chest and arms are so red I could be mistaken for a drumstick - much to my husbands amusement. Apparently I did need sun cream!

 

[izzzi]

hope the kids are ok ( I know they are ), coincidentally I think I just heard that some people are over protecting their children's skin with a to high sun cream factor.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

I believe I heard that the incidence of Rickets has risen due to the overuse of high factor sun cream.

 

[Fallgal]

Because I'm very fair, I've always worn high factor sunscreen, big sunglasses and often hats. Before I moved to England, I was never one for the beach (now I love it), sun, heat, etc. I've now had skin cancer three times/three surgeries, two of them in the last 6 months. I guess there really is something to be said for overdoing it.

 

[zand]

The problem with using high factor sun cream too much is that it stops us from getting vitamin D from the sun. I have read that Vitamin D helps protect us from, amongst other things,........skin cancer.

 

[Fallgal]

My brother had skin cancer as well, as did my father. I'm going to call up my mom and yell at her for constantly telling us to put on sunscreen. LOL (I'm only kidding about yelling at her. She did what she thought was right at the time!)

 

[Andy12345]

I'm very irritating, i just go brown without any suncream, even in florida i only wear the sun cream for a day or so to get me used to the sun, but over here never have to.

my brother has just had he's second skin cancer removed, he used to fit windscreens onto cars for 15 years so id put it down to that, he never wore sun cream so its hard to know which way to go, i know my missus makes my kids bathe in sun cream if they are just passing a window in the house where the curtains are open, much to their displeasure

 

[Andy12345]

when i read the title i thought for a second you had found something that tasted like drum stick lollies (which i loved)

 

[zand]

Isn't it oh so hard to get the balance right? Obviously you don't want burnt skin, so you use sunscreen. That's got to be sensible, but getting the balance right....that's so difficult to do. Thankfully I don't like sunbathing at all, so I only really need to use it when out on long walks in the sun....and like Scandi I sometimes forget. The lobster look doesn't really look good on me either!

 

[Brunneria]

I saw a kid in a push chair yesterday - white blond hair, very fair skin. Bawling his eyes out. His parents had left him sitting beside their picnic table, in the full sun, in a pub garden. He was as red as a lobster, and distressed. Very distressed. I'll bet he feels even worse today.

Poor wee niblet.

 

[paul-1976]

I saw a kid in a push chair yesterday - white blond hair, very fair skin. Bawling his eyes out. His parents had left him sitting beside their picnic table, in the full sun, in a pub garden. He was as red as a lobster, and distressed. Very distressed. I'll bet he feels even worse today.

Poor wee niblet.

Oh no! Poor kid!

 

[tomvonc]

I'm really annoying, I'm usually brown after that little sunny spell we get in April/May all the way through til October ;-)

Tom

 

[paul-1976]

I'm the same Tom-I never burn either and brown really easy too but I do have the advantage of some Mediterranean blood in me.

 

[Scandichic]

Totally unfair. Chest still bright red!
Not unlike this....

 

[popsy]

Blah....I go red then peel. I don't remember ever being brown even if I do all I'm supposed to do with the sunscreen. I do remember when I was a kid on the annual holiday in a caravan, being sat on the table in the caravan and having huge blisters on my shoulders popped by my Mum with a sterilised needle. Was probably pre-sunscreen days that or they just didn't give a ****!

 

[popsy]

Poor Scandi, hope you are ok, it's horrible that tight sore feeling and forget showers! Ouchy!

 

[tomvonc]

I'm the same Tom-I never burn either and brown really easy too but I do have the advantage of some Mediterranean blood in me.

I'm half Scottish and half German! Go figure that out if you can. I should burn under a 40w lightbulb :-/

Tom

 

[zand]

Oh dear Scandi, I hope it gets better soon. It's really not nice at all is it?