Mum's dream holiday ruined after kids left with severe burns while wearing factor 50

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holiday turned into a nightmare for a mum whose young sons were left in agony after being badly burnt despite wearing factor 50 suncream.Newport mum Carlien Pretorius was on holiday in Gran Canaria with her boys for just a few hours when she noticed they had started to burn.Joshua, 11, and Luke, nine, were in t-shirts and had SPF (sun protection factor) 50 applied to their skin, but Joshua’s burns became so bad that Carlien decided to take photos and post them on social media.The sun cream came from a shop on the island labelled 'parafarmacia', said Carlien, but after the burns became so bad she returned to the shop to spend a total of €110 (£95) for ointment to put on their skin.However, she said this only made things worse, so she went to the the surgery where she was given free advice.Carlien said she blames the shop which sold her the sun cream on the island and herself for “not being able to protect my kids from this horrible thing happening to them”.She said she was shocked that her boys burnt from just being in the swimming pool despite having full 50+ sunscreen on and T-shirts.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Carlien added that the sun cream could have been either out of date, or the wrong cream for their ages.“Both of them were in a lot of pain and I had to give them Calpol regularly which I thankfully had brought with me from the UK," she told WalesOnline. "Joshua especially was in absolute agony.