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[quote=Anonymous]My family uses spray sunscreen on the parents and the children.  We even use it on the face and just hold our breath for the two seconds it takes to apply. We never have a problem even though several of us in the family have allergies. The articles or information posted don't finds that the product is a health risk, either due to the chemicals or from inhaling it.  So you can't just keep insisting that it is and expect everyone else to have to stop using it as a result.

I use it specifically BECAUSE my primary care physician recommended it for me and my family.  My whole family spends a lot of time outside and we need sunscreen.  DH happens to be very bad at applying cream sunscreen, either to himself or others, and is constantly streaking it and missing spots that get burned.  So the sunscreen application job for the whole family, the kids and me and DH, falls to me.  I have sensitive skin and got a terrible rash on my hands after using cream lotions during a vacation at the beach and applying and reapplying multiple people.  I had to have prescriptions medicine to clear it up and it took months.  It happened a second time.  The doctor told me to use only the spray on my family to limit how much I got on my hands.  Since then I've had no rashes.  So for my family there is a medical reason as well as a preference to use the spray and specifically NOT to use the kind of spray that needs to be rubbed in or put in your hand first.

All that said, we do try to apply it in an out of the way spot at the pool where we are members, or try at home in the yard before we go out in order to be courteous b/c I understand there is an odor that some object to.  But I do myself get annoyed when - even after I have moved away to use the spray - I still get the evil eye from some self-righteous person who feels put out by the fact that I've used it at all.  I'm sorry but if you are out in public you have to deal with other people and other people might make different choices that can effect you sometimes.  You can't be in your own personal bubble in public.

If I had been the woman asked to move b/c of a child with asthma I would have moved to apply the spray out of courtesy, as I said its my practice to move away from others.  But I also think the woman that asked was pretty darn right rude to ask.  The child could have moved for a few seconds and taken care of the situation just as well and it is the person with asthma that has the special requirement.  Spray sunscreen isn't the only personal hygiene item that can cause asthma attacks - so can some perfumes and fragrant lotions.  We don't ban all those b/c some people can't tolerate them or just don't like them.

Those of you who object, your preferences and reasons are valid and you should make your choice.  But so are mine and the product isn't banned and has not been established to present a health risk. So I will continue to be courteous and step aside to apply my spray.  I hope that you will attempt to be similarly courteous and not  give me the evil eye and assume that you know best or that your needs or preferences are more valid then mine.[/quote]

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