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Boy who is allergic to the sun lives in torment, both from the sun and peers

UK:   A schoolboy with a rare painful allergy to the sun has stopped wearing protective brown cream because he was being racially abused by other children.

James Creag, who suffers from the rare illness Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) – where sufferers are allergic to the sun – received taunts of “chocolate face” and “you’re coloured” when he wore the cream.

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