A baby almost died after being scalded by a drop of hot tea.
Alexander Caven-Atack, was only 10 months old, when he developed a bacterial infection of the lesion, which was no bigger than a 10 pence coin.
I had to have 80 percent of its top layer of skin removed with a scalpel and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital.
The burn was treated by doctors in the accident at Colchester General Hospital and emergency department, but the infection is gone. Five days later, his skin was blistered and peeling off the back, arms and face.
He was rushed to the burn unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, where surgeons remove the infected skin for six operations. His parents said that their baby can not survive the procedure.
Alexander has made a full recovery and his father Andrew, 60, mother of Sarah, 40, are warning that even minor burns can lead to Lyell's syndrome potentially fatal.
Andrew, of Colchester, Essex, said: "A consultant in Broomfield said after Alexander had been lucky to survive.
"If I have identified above that could have been treated with a course of antibiotics and creams. '
Alexander Caven-Atack, was only 10 months old, when he developed a bacterial infection of the lesion, which was no bigger than a 10 pence coin.
I had to have 80 percent of its top layer of skin removed with a scalpel and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital.
The burn was treated by doctors in the accident at Colchester General Hospital and emergency department, but the infection is gone. Five days later, his skin was blistered and peeling off the back, arms and face.
He was rushed to the burn unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, where surgeons remove the infected skin for six operations. His parents said that their baby can not survive the procedure.
Alexander has made a full recovery and his father Andrew, 60, mother of Sarah, 40, are warning that even minor burns can lead to Lyell's syndrome potentially fatal.
Andrew, of Colchester, Essex, said: "A consultant in Broomfield said after Alexander had been lucky to survive.
"If I have identified above that could have been treated with a course of antibiotics and creams. '
As it was, Alexander doctors involved in a suit to recover anti-septic.
"I was blindfolded and they gave us this little mummy with just your thumbs and a sample of the big toe, said Mr. Caven-Atack, a music publisher.
"He spent two weeks in intensive care and antibiotics were administered intravenously.
"He was fed by tube. Our smiling baby did not smile normally once in two weeks."
Alexander received a 10p piece the size of burn when he grabbed his father's cup of tea, sitting in the garden on 3 September last year.
"He leaned over him and on his bare legs, said Mr. Caven-Atack.
"I met with him to the kitchen and took the clothes away."
The burn caused scalded skin syndrome is extremely rare, an infection caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and the young man needed 13 days of treatment in hospital.
Mr. Caven-Atack, said: "We want to use her ordeal to inure to the next child does not go through what happened. Really could have died."
Ross Carroll, whose charity Prevention City leads a hot drink awareness campaign, said: "The child would have died if he had not come to the burn unit.
"It's really alarming that was not diagnosed before.
A spokesman for Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, said: "If Mr. Caven-Atack has concerns about any aspect of child care in A & E department, we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible so that we can investigate.
"Our dermatology department is not aware of any protocol that has been developed by the family GP, but we are very interested in this particular doctor."
Creffield Road Surgery in Colchester, who initially tried to Alexander agreed to conduct additional testing on scalded children under five.
According to the NHS 180 children are blanched by hot drinks daily.
Mrs. Faye Holdsworth Colchester is leading a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers after her six months in Georgia May was marked when a tray of drinks fell to his side.
"I urge parents to think all the time about the dangers of hot drinks," he said.
"Be aware and keep toys out of the kitchen. Now when I see mothers handling the cafes and their babies, I feel physically sick.
"Our dermatology department is not aware of any protocol that has been developed by the family GP, but we are very interested in this particular doctor."
Creffield Road Surgery in Colchester, who initially tried to Alexander agreed to conduct additional testing on scalded children under five.
According to the NHS 180 children are blanched by hot drinks daily.
Mrs. Faye Holdsworth Colchester is leading a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers after her six months in Georgia May was marked when a tray of drinks fell to his side.
"I urge parents to think all the time about the dangers of hot drinks," he said.
"Be aware and keep toys out of the kitchen. Now when I see mothers handling the cafes and their babies, I feel physically sick.
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