WARNING: Graphic images
Doctors have raised the alarm about the dangers of reflective ultraviolet (UV) rays for children.
Several babies have recently presented at hospital emergency departments in Perth with serious sunburn, even after spending time in mild and overcast conditions.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Babies suffering serious sunburn even in shade.
Ten-week-old Lucy Goddard was treated for second-degree burns in hospital after being sunburnt two weeks ago.
“They remove the top layers of the skin which is where the blisters and the boils were sitting,” her mother Courtney Goddard told 7NEWS.
“Hearing your baby scream through ED is screams you’re not going to forget.”
The family had been outside but in the shade on an overcast day.
Lucy’s burns are from what is called reflectiv

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