Mom reveals how her son was so badly burned by a popular snack that he needed skin grafts
‘His skin melted’: Mom reveals how her son got so burned by a popular snack that he needed pig skin grafts
A mother has revealed her horror after a ‘normal day’ turned into a nightmare when her son scalded himself with a boiling hot cup of takeout noodles.
Nicole Lego, who regularly uploads stories about her family’s life in the US in TikTok, urged parents to heed her warning after her son was rushed to intensive care with second-degree burns.
In her video on TikTok, Nicole told her followers, “If you’re a parent of little kids, really college kids, or even just an adult, I want you to listen to this.”
The clip, filmed in her car, has since gone viral and has since been viewed 8.4 million times.
Clearly emotional, she said, “I only come here because I don’t want any child to ever go through what my son has been through for the past three days.”
Nicole Lego, believed to be from the US, shared the terrifying story of how her son put a cup of noodles in boiling hot water on his lap
“My son has been in the ICU for burns because of something I never imagined could happen in my entire life.”
She explained that her son loves supermarket noodles, which are usually bought dry in a cup and then filled with boiling hot water. However, his favorite snack took a terrifying turn when he accidentally “dropped the whole cup of noodles on his lap.”
Describing the moments after, she said, “Immediately he screams at the top of his lungs, he takes off his pants, all the skin melts away like a little ice cream cone, everything starts to melt away.”
“We didn’t know he already had deep second-degree burns. Many people don’t realize that a burn like that doesn’t stop burning, it burns for 72 hours.”
At the hospital, she said, “No medicine would stop the screaming. He had surgery today to get pigskin grafts to seal off the nerves and let them heal.”
She described her son’s skin as “like an ice cream cone” after the burning water “melted” his skin
Lego added that her son was now dealing with “infection and scarring and trauma that they will have for the rest of their lives over a cup of noodles.”
Those who commented on the video said they’d had similar experiences.
One wrote: ‘This happened to me as a young child and I will never forget it, I hope he heals soon.’
A grateful parent wrote, “Thank you for your courage. This must be so painful to talk about on a social media platform…. but you have given so many the gift of prevention.”
Another person suggested dropping ice cubes into the boiling water used for noodles to cool it down faster and avoid accidents.