FOXNews.com: Girls Burn After School Blocks Use of Suncreen

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Girls Burn After School Blocks Use of Suncreen Jun 25th 2012, 21:10 A Tacoma, Wash., mom is seeing red after her fair-skinned daughters returned home from school severely sunburned. Violet and Zoe Michener were outside for five hours during the school's year-end 'Field Day, and when they returned home, they had burns and blisters, according to Jesse Michener. They appeared to be in so much pain that she had to take them to a local hospital for treatment. Michener says she did not give the girls sunscreen because it appeared to be an overcast day, but says that school officials should have been able to let them apply sunscreen when the sun came out--especially since both Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, suffer from a form of albinism.  But the school district's policy only allows for sunscreen to be applied when the student has a signed doctor's note giving the okay, because the district considers sunscreen a medication. Dan Voelpel, a spokesman for Tacoma School District, cited additives that cause allergic reactions as a reason for the policy. Michener told Q13Fox that she is writing letters to the district and school board regarding a change in sunscreen policies. Washington isn't the only state to ban sunscreen without a doctor's note.  In fact, California is the only state that allows sunscreen without permission from a doctor. Click for more at Q13Fox.

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