A Texas mother has accused a school of banning children from using sunscreen, causing her daughter to suffer from severe sunburn, Fox News reported.

The restriction was imposed by the North East Independent School District since sunscreen could prove to be toxic if children end up eating it, parent Christy Riggs, of San Antonio, told Fox News.

After Riggs' 10-year-old daughter went on a school field trip, she came back home sun-burned because the school wouldn't allow her to bring sunscreen to reapply.

"The reality is: Children don't eat sunscreen and they're not going to," Riggs said.

"When you have a school field trip or a field day (in) which they're out there for an extended period of time, they should be allowed to carry sunscreen and reapply," Riggs told KSAT.

Allergic reactions to sunscreen are one of the numerous reasons the district does not allow sunblock in its 72 schools, Aubrey Chancellor, school district spokeswoman, told ABC News

"We don't want students sharing sunscreen," Chancellor told the station. "If students get it in their eyes or react badly to the sunscreen it can be quite serious."

Riggs, whose father died of skin cancer this year, said the ban is hurting the schoolchildren instead of helping them.

A spokeswoman for the North East Independent School District explained that sunscreen is considered a medication and that children need to provide a doctor's note to bring it on campus.

"Typically, sunscreen is a toxic substance, and we can't allow toxic things in to be in our schools," Chancellor told KSAT.

"We want to teach our children to eat healthier, yet we have them outside and let them burn," Riggs said.

"I'm not saying all children should be required to bring sunscreen," Riggs said. "But skin cancer is on the rise and reapplying at school shouldn't be an issue."

The sunscreen ban may be revisited when policies at Northeast ISD are revisited this year, officials said.