A seven -year -old man from Festus, Missouri faced a severe third degree of burning and was released into a coma after a Needoh cube, a popular squishi toy, exploded on his face. As New York PostScarlett Celby had allegedly watched a ticket video of people and then microwave the toy to make it more condemnable and attempted to repeat the process. However, when he removed the toy from the microwave, it burst, covered her face and chest with warm material.
Josh Selbi, a 44-year-old father of Scarlett, was alert by his daughter’s “blood-curding scream” and escaped to help him. He tried hard to remove the sticky, scorching substance from his skin and clothes. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors inspired a coma due to concerns that burning on his mouth could swell and shut down his airways.
The girl’s father Josh Selbi said, “All this happened so soon. I heard her scream, and it was like a blood-scream.”
He said, “She used to frozen the Needoh Cube before the night and the next day she showed me that it was rock solid and playing with her. She pasted it in the microwave. I was looking at her and she saw that she was not too hot to take it out,” she said.
Five months after the October 1 incident, Scarlett is worried about its recovery, waiting for the news whether he will need skin graft to burn his second and third degrees. According to his mother, Amanda Blacknsip, Scarlett watched the online videos of people microwving toy and wanted to try it themselves.
“After consulting with doctors, we are going to give him a few years, maybe until he is around 12, to see how his body grows and depends on if the mark grows and grows with him, we are still putting cream and silicon ointment on him – they are intensive marks that work with his skin.
“She gets very self-conscious and I am trying to cover her mark with her shirt when we are sometimes out in public, or she will come home from school and says that another child asked her about it. I tell her that she does not need to be shy about it. She was a terrible, a terrible, horrific accident,” she said.
The girl’s father is now urging her parents to release their Needoh products after a painful incident. He warned that the substance inside the toy is similar to hot glue, causing severe irritation on the explosion. Shri Selbi also insisted that once the substance comes in contact with the skin, it is very difficult to remove it. He further expressed concern about the safety and marketing of the toy, saying that it should not be sold or promoted in its current form.
