Boy, 12, undergoes skin graft after sun exposure caused popular toy to explode

A 12-year-old UK boy had to undergo surgery after a squishy toy left on a windowsill exploded, showering him with molten goo.“He was in the kitchen and suddenly started screaming,” Aarti Narula, 44, told Kennedy News of the horrific incident, which occurred at her home in Meyerside.This was one of a rash of NeeDoh-related accidents that have befallen children over the past couple of months.Aarti’s son Avyaan had reportedly been playing with a cube of NeeDoh, which she purchased from Lidl, on July 17 during the brutal heatwave that scorched the UK.His play session was cut short when the gelatinous knick-knack burst, expelling its scalding contents onto the top of his left foot.Upon hearing his cries, the preteen’s distraught mom rushed into the kitchen and tried to scrape off the sticky substance before washing it off under a cold tap.“In a panic, I washed his foot because there was no way that the fluid would come off — it just got stuck like a blob, it was very thick,” the mother-of-two recalled.However, by that point the damage had been done, and an hour later, the skin atop his foot had started to bubble.“Two or three hours later it had completely ballooned,” recalled the aghast parent, adding that her progeny “began to lose feeling in the limb” as well.Horrified, Aarti rushed the boy to the hospital in Liverpool, where doctors diagnosed him with full dermal burns, which would require him to get the dermis replaced.“The doctors said he would definitely need a skin graft because there was no blood supply [to the skin in that area of his foot],” Aarti.On July 20, Avyaan underwent the operation, which required doctors to use a swatch of healthy skin from his thigh to replace his damaged dermis.His mother believes the NeeDoh had burst because it had been left in direct sunlight on the windowsill of her son’s bedroom.The toy’s manufacturer, Schylling Toys, has a disclaimer on their website to “NOT heat, freeze, or microwave” the cubes...