{"id":664293,"date":"2026-06-29T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664293\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:36:09","slug":"children-burned-after-heating-squishy-toys-in-microwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664293\/","title":{"rendered":"Children burned after heating squishy toys in microwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlet Rowe, age 11, from Irvine in North Ayrshire, was treated for burns to her face and eyelid after an incident in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her mother Gina said: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t realise what had happened at first, it just looked like slime on her face. It was only after a few minutes we realised it had been heated and was burning her skin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The swelling was so bad that we weren&#8217;t sure what the outcome would be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thankfully, no graft was required but it is so close to her eye that this could have been a lot worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile eight-year-old Joseph Erskine, from Clackmannanshire, needed weeks of treatment and a skin graft after a toy burst across his chest and hand in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother Stephanie Ewing said her son used a towel to wipe off the burning gel, removing part of the skin in the process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlet Rowe, age 11, from Irvine in North Ayrshire, was treated for burns to her face and eyelid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}