A MUM was left horrified after her baby boy pulled a vegetable steamer over his head – pouring nine litres of boiling water on his body.
Little Dougie Dodd suffered third-degree burns to his face, neck, hands, chest and feet when he snagged the kitchen item.
His mum, Nadia Hulse, was cooking and chatting to her mother while the one-year-0ld played with saucepans on the floor.
She said he reached up to the steamer with a spoon and she shouted at him to stop.
But the one-year-old boy jumped backwards and caught the spoon on the wire of the steamer, which tipped on him.
The mum told the Mirror: “I stripped Dougie and raced him upstairs into a cold bath but he was screaming hysterically and trying to get out of the bath and on to me.”
‘I COULDN’T STOP CRYING’
Her mum, who watched it happen on FaceTime, called an ambulance and Dougie was rushed to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Nadia said: “He was touch-and-go in the hospital at one point and I couldn’t stop crying. I was an absolute mess.”
He then developed toxic shock syndrome and needed a blood plasma transfusion.
After about a month in hospital he was allowed home after making a brave recovery.
He still has to wear a special vest at night to try and reduce the scars left by the accident.
Nadia said: “Dougie is such a happy, lively little boy and has not changed his outgoing personality one bit.
“But I still feel guilt. I know it was a freak accident and the only thing I could have done differently was not let him play with the saucepans.
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“I worry about him growing up with his scars but will constantly reassure him every day of how brave he was and how beautiful he is with his scars.”
Earlier this year we told how a baby who toppled into a bucket of boiling water used to fill his bath
died from his injuries.
One-year-old Daniil Chernenko suffered 80 per cent burns and doctors battled for 11 days to save his life, say reports.