[quote]Tyler Attrill developed severe leg pains and was found to lack vitamin D, the deficiency which leads to the Victorian slum disease.
Despite living in one of the sunniest places in the country, she had too little direct exposure to sunlight, doctors said.
Hers is one of a growing number of cases of a disease thought to have been eliminated more than 80 years ago, but now occurring in children of all backgrounds.
Full-blown rickets causes deformities including bowed legs and curvature of the spine, and was associated with children growing up in dark 19th century tenements.
It is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, manufactured when the skin is exposed to sunlight.
Tyler's mother Lisa, a 36-year-old nurse from Sandown, Isle of Wight, said her daughter and son Ben, aged 10, enjoyed playing outside with friends but had always worn sun cream in hot weather.
The Isle of Wight frequently records more hours of sunshine in a year than anywhere else in Britain.
"We live right by the beach so Tyler was outside with her friends every day last summer," Mrs Attrill said.
Read more: [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8268321/Schoolgirls-rickets-blamed-on-sunscreen.html[/url][/quote]
Fun fact: In japan some women walk pigeon toed because it's seen as cute, because it looks like a child.
Damn moms trying to be as safe as possible. I always get SPF UVB 30 or sometimes 15.
Start supplementing it then. Don't blame it on the sunscreen that protects you from melenoma.
My dad had rickets when he was little. Vitamin D deficiency seems to be prominent in the family.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;27575786]Damn moms trying to be as safe as possible. I always get SPF UVB 30 or sometimes 15.[/QUOTE]
I never use sunscreen.
Like a man.
I dunno about this, the argument doesn't stand strong
Eat more fish, it's better for you than beef anyway.
Why the hell do you need sun screen in the UK?
hahaha
white people
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and brown people
and yellow people
and red people
derp
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;27576072]I never use sunscreen.
Like a man.[/QUOTE]
That's a dumb idea.
That being said, I do the same. And I know it's dumb, but I'm kinda lazy.
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;27576072]I never use sunscreen.
Like a man.[/QUOTE]
I never use sunscreen, I get Skin Cancer.
Like a man.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;27576131]Eat more fish, it's better for you than beef anyway.[/QUOTE]
Shit, I live on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and I never eat fish.
I never use sunscreen, yet I also don't stay in direct sunlight for too long.
I never use sunscreen because I don't go outside! :v:
:frown:
thank god i dont wear sunscreen
I don't wear sunscreen.
Wow I didn't know this was possible. I wonder if people who stay inside all the time can get this (aka all of FP).
i dont like sunscreen because it smells wierd
[quote][b]Tyler[/b] was prescribed multivitamin tablets and [b]her[/b] vitamin D levels are now far better.[/b][/quote]
:rolleyes:
Probably a bunch of Southerners who don't let their kids drink milk or eat beef because it's "cruel".
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