On his Twitter account, a dad wanted to do some prevention with parents after his 13-month-old daughter was burned by a nail product.
A testimony “of public utility”. Each week, we continue to count the messages that testify to domestic accidents experienced by children. After the shocking death of a 4-month-old baby, run over by a tractor during the harvest in the Marne, a dad testified on Twitter, Friday, September 16, to the terrible misadventure experienced by her 13 month old baby. By telling “the story of [sa] daughter”Tom says that a few months ago his baby “discovered the four-legged”, which prompted her parents to be extra vigilant to prevent the little girl from getting hurt. But this September 13, when the evening of Tom and his family is announced “normal”while his daughter “had been in the bath, had eaten his meal, played on the floor with aunt and dad while mum did her nails on the table”everything will suddenly change.
“A bottle of ‘primer’ (a product that improves the adhesion of varnish, editor’s note) ended up on the ground without anyone noticing it, or even hearing it fall even though it was made of glass”, thus confided the young dad, specifying that his daughter managed to open the bottle. Frightened by seeing the product in his hands, his parents reflexively shouted, “which led to the reversal” of the product. “In the rain, we rinsed his mouth and have it taken straight to the hospital the closest. What we didn’t realize was that the product had spilled on his pajamas and therefore, was remained in contact with his skin“, he detailed, before revealing the worst. Indeed, in contact with the little girl’s skin, the substance third degree burns to 14% of her body.
A testimony to alert
Now that she is placed in the pediatric burns unit, the little girl’s parents are still waiting to see the evolution of the burn, “in order to know the sequence of events, what will happen to her, if there is need for transplant or if that can resolve on its own“, detailed Tom. Supporting photos, we see the burns, mainly on the legs, of the little girl. “A simple 5ml bottle turned our lives upside down in three seconds“regretted his dad on Twitter, lamenting the “enormous brutality” primer. Renowned for its dangerousness, this product used in particular for semi-permanent manicures must be handled with great care because of its formulation containing acid. “Even gasoline, acetone, or any other corrosive product would not burn a body so much in such a short time”, assured Tom. Consumed by guilt, he wishes above all warn about the dangerousness of this productespecially with beauticians, but also with people who use it.