A seven-year-elderly from Festus, Missouri, suffered cut offe third-degree burns and was left in a coma after a NeeDoh cube, a well-understandn squicowardly toy, exploded in her face. According to the New York Post, Scarlett Selby had telledly seen a TikTok video of people freezing and then microwaving the toy to produce it more malleable and tryed to duplicate the process. However, when she erased the toy from the microwave, it exploded, covering her face and chest with scorching boiling material.
Josh Selby, Scarlett’s 44-year-elderly obeseher, was attentiveed by his daughter’s “blood-curdling scream” and rushed to her help. He franticly tried to erase the adhesive, scorching substance from her skin and clothes. She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors convey aboutd a coma due to worrys that the burns on her mouth could caparticipate her airways to swell and shut.
“It all happened so rapidly. I heard her scream, and it was appreciate a blood-curdling scream,” the girl’s obeseher Josh Selby shelp.
“She’d frozen the NeeDoh cube the night before and the next day she showed me it was rock firm and was take parting with it. She stuck it in the microwave. I was watching her and saw her touch it to verify it wasn’t too boiling when she pulled it out,” he includeed.
Five months after the October 1 incident, Scarlett remains worried about her recovery, apaparticipateing novels on whether she’ll need skin grafts for her second and third-degree burns. According to her mother, Amanda Blakenship, Scarlett had seen online videos of people microwaving the toy and wanted to try it herself.
“After confering with the doctors we’re going to give her a couple of years, maybe until she’s around 12, to see how her body grows and depfinishing on if the scar stretches out and grows with her, We’re still putting creams and silicon ointments on it daily — they’re such procreate scars that stick up off of her skin,” shelp her mom, who toils as a hairdresser.
“She gets very self-conscious and I’ll see her trying to cover her scar up with her shirt when we’re out in disclose sometimes, or she’ll come home from school and say another kid asked her about it. I alert her she doesn’t need to be embarrassed about it. She went thraw a lot and it was a horrible, horrible accident,” Ms Blakenship includeed.
The girl’s obeseher is now urging parents to decline their NeeDoh products follothriveg the traumatic incident. He alerted that the substance inside the toy is aappreciate to boiling glue, which can caparticipate cut offe burns upon explosion. Mr Selby also stressed that once the substance comes into communicate with the skin, it is inanxiously difficult to erase. He further transmited worrys about the toy’s safety and tageting, stating that it should not be selderly or advertised in its current establish.
