A little boy whose skin blisters at the slightest touch uses LAUGHING GAS as a way to escape from the terrible pain of his daily routine.

Evan Prescott, eight, was diagnosed with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at birth, a rare genetic tissue disorder which has no cure.

Sufferers are often called “butterfly children” as it makes their skin as fragile as this wings of a butterfly and tear as easily as tissue paper.