It is not very surprising that children and teens are particularly prone to accidents. Given their tendency to imitate adults, they often find themselves in tricky situations, which sometimes even lead to accidents. Cosmetic products, which are among the most common things that children get exposed to from a young age, are often the reason for injuries among them. In one such instance, a teenager from Ohio, US, recently had to face the brunt of simply removing her nail paint with the remover and ended up in the hospital with third-degree burns.
According to a People report, the 14-year-old Kennedy was at her home in Xenia, Ohio, when she was getting ready to join her cheerleading team in school for the basketball team. Just like any other teen, she was busy removing her nail paint, however, sitting close to a burning candle. Little did she show that it would scar her for the worst. At the time when Kennedy kept the bottle of nail paint remover on the bed, the fumes kind of ‘mixed’ and the bottle exploded in her hands, setting her and everything around her on fire.
“I had to take my fingernail polish off because it’s not in uniform and as I was taking it off I had a candle near me on my bed. As I was setting the bottle of nail polish remover down on my bed the fumes kind of just mixed together and the bottle exploded in my hand. It caught me and everything near me on fire,” she told the outlet.
The teenager further shared that she got scared and started screaming, alarming her four siblings, who were at home. As their parents were at home, while Kennedy managed to put out the fire on her body, her siblings made out of the house and called 911 for help. “It’s nothing I’ve ever been through before. I was still in a lot of shock but after the adrenaline wore down, I was in a lot of pain,” she said.
Speaking on the same, Kennedy’s mother recalled how she saw the horrific scene of her daughter being covered in “bubbles, welts, and her skin being melted away.”
According to the report, Kennedy was transported to the Shriners Children’s Hospital, where she was treated by Dr Sara Higginson, the chief of staff. Immediately after admission, the 14-year-old had to go through a major procedure to get her wounds cleaned and dead skin removed. Later, she also underwent a surgical excision and grafting procedure. Speaking about her recovery, Kennedy expects to be completely done with the healing process by next year.
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