A YOUNG woman claims her "skin fell off" after an old hot water bottle burst over her legs and vagina. Yazmin Hardy says her legs were left "burning for a week" when her hot water bottle burst while lying on the sofa on Tuesday, July 16. The 27-year-old was on day one of her period and suffering "painful" menstrual cramps when she reached for her heat pad to help soothe the pain.
After filling the bottle up to the top with boiling kettle water, the recruitment consultant put it back in its cover and headed to the couch to lie down. But minutes later, Yazmin, from Manchester, says the product split open pouring boiling liquid onto her legs, lower tummy and hands. Immediately, she stripped and jumped into a cold shower for 30 minutes to relieve the "burning pain".
Read more on burns "The pain was eased by the shower pretty quickly but it was a really sharp, boiling burning pain," Yazmin said. "The burns were mainly on my thigh and the top of my vagina and then on my other inner thigh. "The pressure from the shower was causing the skin to just fall off my leg and when I got out of the shower I had no skin there and it was bright red and more skin came off.
"When I got out of the shower I had no skin there and it was bright red and more skin came off. Most read in Health "For days on end, my leg kept burning. A week later it was still burning hot.
" Yazmin eventually went to Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester where she had her dead skin removed and her wounds wrapped. She then ret.
