Mum ‘won’t drink tea again’ after freak accident left baby needing skin grafts
A horrified mum says she’ll never drink a hot drink wheel her son in the room after a freak accident at a café.
Carrie Doyle was on her way to playgroup with her one-year-old son Mason when she decided to stop off for a cup of tea at St George's Restaurant in Gravesend, Kent, last month.
But suddenly little Mason, was covered in scalding tea that left him needing a gruelling four-hour operation to perform a skin graft to the most severely burned areas of his legs.
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Carrie said: "I was pushing the pram so a waitress said 'I'll bring it over' so I walked to an empty table with Mason and kind of parked him up at an angle.
"She's followed me over and all I heard her say was 'I'll leave this here'. Then by the time I looked at [Mason] and his face told me that something wasn't right.
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"I bent down to him," Carrie recalled, "and I felt the heat coming off his clothes and that's when it dawned on me what had actually happened.
"I got him out of the pram and was screaming 'get him under water'. I literally threw him at the waitress behind the counter and she took him into the kitchen and put him in their sink.
"I ran back to the table to get my phone to ring an ambulance and then ran back in and took over taking his clothes and nappy off. It was absolute panic.
"He was screaming, he was hysterical. He's always been really laid back and calm for a baby and he doesn't cry so to hear those screams was heart-wrenching."
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An off-duty nurse then stepped in to help Carrie care for her son while they waited for an ambulance.
The mum-of-four says the kind passer-by knew that Mason needed to be under the cold water for a minimum of 20 minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes and made sure this was done.
An ambulance arrived swiftly and took little Mason to Darent Valley Hospital in nearby Dartford, where his burns were assessed, cleaned and bandaged and the terrified tot was given pain relief.
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Carrie, 38, says that things could have been a lot worse if the off-duty paediatric nurse hadn’t been in the café at the time.
She later managed to track down her son's rescuer via social media so she could thank her properly.
While no one knows exactly how the accident occurred, Carrie says the ordeal has left her so worried about hot drinks that she will never have one around her child again.
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