Lidl toy explodes after being left on windowsill burning boy, 12, and leaving him needing urgent skin graft

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Lidl toy explodes after being left on windowsill burning boy, 12, and leaving him needing urgent skin graft.

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A mum claims her son needed a skin graft when a squishy toy purchased from Lidl "exploded", leaving him with horrific burns.Avyaan Narula, 12, was playing with the NeeDoh cube during the heatwave on Friday, July 17, when it "popped", sending warm goo from inside the cube spilling onto the top of his left foot.Horrified mum Aarti Narula, 44, raced into the kitchen after she heard her son "screaming" and desperately tried to remove the sticky substance from his skin.Aarti washed the molten liquid from Avyaan's foot under the cold tap, but says an hour later the skin on the top of his foot had "bubbled up".

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The mum-of-two took Avyaan to the walk-in centre as he began to lose sensation in that area of his limb.From there, Avyaan was taken to the A&E department at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, where he was diagnosed with full-dermal burns.The schoolboy underwent a skin graft on July 20, where doctors used the skin from his thigh to replace the...

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