Eren is at permanent risk of infections which could cause heart failure By Anna Hodgekiss PUBLISHED: 06:13 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 14:04 EST, 21 February 2013 Eight-year-old Eren Gok is forced to put up with cruel taunts and stares wherever he goes. The little boy suffers from a life-threatening condition that makes his skin look sunburned all year round. His condition appears so distressing that his parents are regularly accused by strangers of leaving him out in the sun to burn. Eren Gok, with his mother Arzu, suffers from a condition that makes his skin look sunburned all the time
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Eight-year-old Eren Gok spent the first year of his life in hospital
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Has Netherton Syndrome, which affects just one in 200,000 people in UK
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Doctors told his parents he wouldn't be able to walk or talk
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Mother speaks of heartbreak after strangers called him 'disgusting'
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Eren is at permanent risk of infections which could cause heart failure
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