Sunblock is causing kids to get rickets - Mirror.co.uk

A GIRL suffered a vitamin deficiency linked to rickets – because her mum put sunblock on her every day.

Tyler Attrill, 12, endured pain after a lack of sun on her skin meant she did not get enough vitamin D. She is just one of many child victims.

The bone disease is back 80 years after it was thought to have been eradicated.

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Professor Nicholas Clarke, professor of paediatric orthopaedic surgery at the University of Southampton, said: "This is almost certainly a combination of the modern lifestyle, which involves a lack of exposure to sunlight."

Tyler's mum Lisa, 36, from Sandown, Isle of Wight, said: "We used factor 50. I thought I was doing the right thing."

Tyler said: "I was crying. The pain was so bad."