A schoolgirl must avoid going outside during the day for two years after an egg she poached in the microwave exploded and scorched her face.

Kadie Law, 12, made the snack using a quick method she had spotted her mum using, by putting an egg in a jug of boiling water and heating it in the microwave.

After heating it for 90 seconds, she put the egg to one side to rest but as she was reaching for a bowl, it exploded and sprayed scalding water over her face.

Mum Kirsty Brown was upstairs putting her youngest daughter to bed when she heard an ‘ear-piercing scream’ downstairs.

Her fiance Michael Sale quickly put Kadie under a cool shower for 40 minutes, before she was rushed to A&E at Royal Oldham Hospital.

Miraculously, Kadie’s eyes were not damaged but she was left with severe burns and blisters across her cheeks, forehead, nose and eyelids.

She was transferred to the burns unit at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, where medics put her in a bath, scraped off the top layer of blisters, applied olive oil, and bandaged her up.

Now, eight months on from her ordeal, the young girl cannot go out in the sun for the next two years and must avoid being outside between the hours of 11am and 4pm.

Medics also told Kadie she must wear a hat, apply factor 50 sunscreen and an emollient every day and is not allowed to wear make up – something the schoolgirl ‘loves’.

Mum Kirsty, who has two younger daughters Evlynn and Hallie Sale, seven and one, shared pictures of her daughter’s injuries online to warn others against cooking eggs in the microwave.

Kadie, from Bacup, Lancashire, said: ‘It went straight on my eyes, I’m lucky not to be blind. It’s the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.’

Recalling the incident, which happened in early October, 33-year-old mum Kirsty said she thought it would be safer for her daughter to use the microwave than the hob as ‘pans sometimes spit’.

But Kadie did not realise the microwave was on the highest temperature setting instead of on medium.

Kirsty was putting her youngest Hallie to sleep when Evelynn ran upstairs and said Kadie had burned her face.

The mum said: ‘At first I thought it wouldn’t be too bad as kids tend to be dramatic.

‘I came running out of the bedroom and into the bathroom where she was in the shower.

‘I had a look at her and I thought it didn’t look too bad because it was very early on and she just look soaked.

‘When I turned her towards me I realised her forehead hadn’t been under the water and I knew we’d have to go to Oldham [hospital].

‘I left her under there for 40 minutes while I packed her a bag and wet a load of towels and blankets to take in the car where she lay with them on her face.’

The mother said she was ‘frantic’ during the 30-minute drive to hospital, while Kadie was calm and not complaining in the backseat.

Despite Kadie suffering blisters and burns across her face, mum Kirsty said she was ‘very lucky’ she managed to close her eyes in time and they were unharmed in the accident.

Doctors instructed the family to apply olive oil to the burns three times a day but Kadie’s skin became infected and she needed a week’s worth of antibiotics to clear it up.

Kirsty is now urging people to be careful when cooking eggs in this way in the microwave and wants to raise awareness about how to treat burns.

She said: ‘It was shocking to see something as simple as cooking an egg cause all that, you don’t expect it at all.’

‘I think it’s really important people know that going under cool water is the most important thing you can do for burns, and the longer the better,’ added the mum.

‘My advice is if you cook something in the microwave don’t pull it out straight away, if you do put it somewhere away from you, don’t put it anywhere near you.’

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected].

For more stories like this, check our news page.

Source: Read Full Article