A schoolgirl was left in a coma and inflicted with horrible third -degree burns after a popular squishy toys that she exploded in the microwave in her face.
Scarlett Selby from Festus, Missouri, put a Needoh cubus in the freezer and then put it in the microwave for a few seconds to make it to be more to be made after he reportedly saw a video of people trying to do the same on Tiktok.
But harmless playing time soon turned into a living nightmare when she took out the toy and the exploded face and breast of the seven-year-old shower with red-hot Goo.
Father Josh Selby, 44, ran to her when he heard a 'blood -curdling scream' and desperately tried to claw the sticky substance of her skin and clothes.
The machine operator hurried Scarlett to the hospital where doctors placed her in an induced coma about the fear that the burns on her mouth would cause her airways to swell up and close.
Five months after the test on October 1, Scarlett is confronted with a frightening waiting to see if she needs skin transplants on the second and third grade burns she has sustained.
Scarlett's mother Amanda Blaakend said that her daughter clips had seen people from the toy online and wanted to try it out herself.
Scarlett Selby, seven years old, was left in a coma and inflicted with horrible third -degree burns after a popular squishy toys she exploded in her face
Toy Company Schylling Toys, which produces Needoh toys, has a warning on their website with the text 'not heating, freezing or microwave, can cause personal injury'
Now the couple urge someone with this toy to throw them out to prevent the same thing to happen to someone else.
Toy Company Schylling Toys, which produces Needoh toys, has a warning on their website with the text 'not heating, freezing or microwave, can cause personal injury'.
Tiktok said that they do not allow content that shows or promote dangerous behavior, while YouTube said that users' safety is an 'extreme priority'.
Remembering the series of events, Mr. Selby said: “She had frozen the Needoh Cube the night before and the next day she showed me that it was Rock Solid and played with it.
“She put it in the microwave. I looked at her and saw her touching to check if it was not too hot when she pulled it out.
“It all happened so quickly. I heard her scream and it was like a blood -curdling scream. It had exploded over her chest, mouth and chin.
“My first thought was to try to wipe it off her. When I touched her, my hand stayed with her. It was really thick and sticky.
'I tore off her shirt from her because it was also attached to her shirt. I took her to the hospital as soon as possible.
“I was a complete mess. She spent a week in the hospital and she was in the coma for three days. I don't think I could talk to someone without crying all the time. '
Scarlett's mother Amanda Blaakship (photo) said her daughter had seen clips from people who need emergency hodoh -kubuses on Tiktok- and YouTube accounts of others and wanted to try it out for herself
Hairdresser Mrs. Blaakensp said that her daughter still shouted from the pain 'after the 30 -minute ride to St Louis Children's Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri, and when they arrived, she was placed in an induced coma.
The 35-year-old said: 'She was in so much pain. She still screamed when we arrived in the hospital and it is a good 30 -minute drive from where we live. It was terrible how scared she was and how much that hurt her.
But harmless playing time soon turned into a living nightmare when the toy exploded the face and the breast of the seven-year-old shower with red-hot Goo
“I was in panic, destroyed, terrified and deeply sad. It was [something] She followed that she had seen on Tiktok and YouTube. '
Scarlett was placed on a food tube for the duration of her stay of a week in the hospital because her lips were burned so heavily.
Doctors decided to be able to perform a skin transplant on her, but her mother believes that she might need one in the future because she has been left with such 'profound' scars.
Mrs. Blaakship explained: 'She didn't get the skin transplant in the end.
'After consulting with the doctors, we will give her a few years, perhaps until she is around 12, to see how her body grows and depends on whether the scar extends and grows with her.
'The scars is just that bad. We still set up creams and siliconzalken every day – they are such in -depth scars that remain of her skin.
“She sometimes gets upset. I will catch her and look in the mirror after the bath and she will just cry.
'She is very self -conscious and I will see her trying to cover her scar with her shirt when we are sometimes in public, or she comes home from school and says that another child has asked her about it.
“I tell her that she doesn't have to be ashamed of it. She went a lot and it was a terrible, terrible accident.
“She came out and she's so strong. She is still beautiful and those scars make her who she is. '
Doctors did not decide to perform a skin transplant on her, but her mother believes that she might need one in the future, because she has been left with such 'profound' scars
The family of Scarlett says that they still put creams and silicon ointments on her burns every day to help them heal
Scarlett's father now urges everyone who has the toys to throw them away to prevent them from coming across the same thing.
He said: “I would never have thought of anything that exploded outside the microwave.
'To happen to my daughter was the most difficult thing I experienced. I absolutely told everyone to throw them away when they have them.
'The product in it is like glue, so you essentially have hot glue that explodes on you. As soon as it touches you, there is no way to get it off.
'It should not be sold as it is and it should certainly not be put on the market as it is. If something like that can explode, it should certainly not be frozen. '
Schyllling -play was approached for comment and did not respond. Tiktok said that they do not allow content that shows or promotes dangerous behavior.
They also said that they have created technology that warns their safety teams of sudden increasing violent content related to hashtags to help detect potentially harmful trends.
YouTube said it is a 13+ platform and accounts that is found in people under the age of 13 without parental supervision, can set up or terminate a supervised account.
They said that they have strict rules that prohibit content with minors who deal with dangerous activities, including content with regard to challenges that pose an imminent risk of physical injury.
They said that the safety of users is an 'extreme priority' and they 'remove this type of content strongly'.
