A mother whose skin tears and blisters from writing, walking and eating was "devastated" when she discovered her son had inherited the same condition, after the skin on his leg "peeled off" during a bath at just 10 days old. Jennifer Taylor, 34, first displayed symptoms of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) as a baby when her thumb blistered, turned purple and caused her fingernail to fall off. The rare genetic condition affects at least 5,000 people in the UK and is also known as '