A toddler has been left with
devastating burns after she poured her mother's cup of scalding tea over her
face. One-year-old Libbie Patterson, pictured before and after above,
had grabbed the mug from a kitchen table at home. And splashed the boiling tea
over her head, face, shoulders and back and immediately began screaming in
agony.
Her distraught mother called an ambulance and the
toddler was rushed to hospital.She spent three nights being treated for burns but medics hope her face - which was left disfigured -
will not be permanently scarred.
Now her mother, Emma Patterson, 24, has released a picture of Libbie's injuries to warn other parents about the dangers of hot drinks.
The mother-of-three
said:
'The cup was close to the edge of the work surface and she reached
up and grabbed it. It went over her face, shoulders, stomach and back.
'She screamed and started to cry. I stripped her off and doused
her in cold towels after I called for an ambulance and she was still screaming.
'Libbie's face was starting to peel and blister and it wasn't a
nice sight. They had to shave her head and she was in a bad way.
'The doctors have said that she will scar on her shoulders but
nowhere else and that's quite lucky. The doctors said that it could have
blinded her and scarred all of her face.
'She is being herself now and her skin just needs to heal a bit
more. If I hadn't made that cup of tea, it wouldn't have happened.
'It is amazing how making a cup of tea can have such devastating
consequences.
'I want to make parents aware of how easily things like this can
happen.
Source - DailymailUK
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