A mom in Washington state is steaming mad after her two daughters were so badly sunburned during a school field trip, they had to be taken to hospital.

Jesse Michener from Tacoma says her daughters, Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, came home from school last Tuesday with severe sunburns after being outside for five hours during a field trip.

The girls were not allowed to bring sunscreen on the trip because of a school-board-wide policy that bans the creams, over fears of allergic reactions.

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