A YOUNG woman has warned of the danger of using old hot water bottles after one exploded over her legs and groin causing severe burns. Jessica Shanks, 25, had placed her hot water bottle between her stomach and the waistband of her pyjamas to soothe her stomach cramps while in bed. But she was left in "agony" when the two-year-old bottle burst and hot water exploded onto her thighs on October 12.
Jessica, from Corfe Mullen in Dorset , passed out as her partner Finley showered her down with cold water. Her mum raced her to the local hospital, where Jessica was diagnosed with second degree burns. She was transferred to the burn unit at Salisbury Hospital where she then spent two and a half weeks recovering.
Read more real life Jessica's pain was so intense she had to use gas and air while showering and had surgery for skin grafts to help her wounds heal. She said: "I usually use a hot water bottle to treat my stomach cramps so I placed it in between my stomach and waistband of my pyjamas. "I had checked the date on it and it was two years out of date.
"I know it's so naive but I just didn't think anything would happen. Most read in Health "It started to trickle down my thighs from the bottom of the water bottle and as I moved in shock, it then burst. "I jumped up from bed who I was in with my partner Finley.
" Jessica, who works in a school for children with special educational needs, continued: "He saw the hot water bottle had exploded and he got me straight into the bath and s.