She was covered in a rash, had a temperature, had crazy itching and her body was all puffy. We ended up taking her back to hospital where they noticed she had signs of toxic shock syndrome. On her return home she wasn’t herself and by the evening she had intense itching and cried for hours. She ended up staying for 3 days before returning home. She was then sent on to Salisbury hospital who specialise in burns. Luckily, some gas and air helped her to get through this.
BURN SCARS FROM BOILING WATER SKIN
She then had to have the burn scrubbed so that all the dead skin was scrubbed away. I had showered her with cold water for 15 minutes, but as the guidelines had recently changed to 20 minutes, poor Bella had to be showered again to ensure she had the adequate time of cooling. She was then blue lighted to Southampton hospital to be assessed. They wrapped her up in cling film and put a hat on her to help her to warm up. The paramedics took control and dosed her up on morphine and paracetamol to help control the pain. I dialled 999 and the most wonderful paramedics arrived within 10 minutes, followed by an ambulance 10 minutes after.īella’s screams for help and the shivering from being so cold will forever haunt me. It still took me a minute to realise this was serious and required urgent help. I showered her with cold water and her skin just kept peeling off before my eyes. I had to leave her baby sister downstairs as I had no choice. I found super strength to race her upstairs into the bath. I took her clothes off and already her skin was falling off. Pure panic hit me like I have never experienced before. It was then that I noticed the pan of boiling water on the floor and realised what had happened. She couldn’t get any words out and was just screaming and pulling at the front of her dress. I was suddenly met with her pained screams and I wasn’t immediately sure what had happened. For some reason which we will never understand, Bella grabbed the pan of boiling water from the back of the hob when I turned my back for a few seconds. On this day I was home alone with Bella and her baby sister Elsie and was preparing their lunch which was pasta. She had never made any attempts to go near our oven/hob until the 29 th February 2020. She very much knows what is right or wrong. It is so easy to think “Oh it would never happen to us” and that is exactly what we thought. I want to raise awareness for burn injuries. You will notice her beautiful blue eyes and also her nasty scarring. In February 2020, Bella (aged 4 at the time) was seriously scalded when she pulled a pan of boiling water over herself, here Bella’s mum recounts the devastating moments after the accident took place and what Bella and her family have been through since…
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