• April 24, 2024

The "Hot water challenge" or the "boiling water challenge" is a very dangerous and ridiculous challenge that has become viral in social networks. Children and young people take it as a challenge to boil water and throw it to anyone who is unprepared, in the worst case, they put their hands in the pots or put the water on them.

The worst is that this terrible challenge has already claimed the life of a little girl of 8 years in Florida. The child boiled water and drank it, causing burns to the trachea, for which she was hospitalized for 2 months, until she finally died.

Another case that is sounded is an 11-year-old girl in the United States, who was attacked by another 12-year-old girl while they were in a sleepover. While the child was sleeping, the girl threw hot water on her face, just because she was upset with her.

This caused second-degree burns on the face, neck, shoulders and chest, which had to be hospitalized in the Burns Unit of the Harlem Hospital in New York.

Degree of burns

The severity of each burn is different, depending on the contact:

Second degree burns: They affect the dermis and generate blisters, swelling, burning and itching.

Third degree burns: These are more serious, because the hypodermis is damaged, thus destroying layers of the skin, causing shocks and scars.

Fourth degree burns: Unfortunately, this type of burns cause the loss of the affected part and also damage bones and muscles. Death in Florida 8 year old girl drank boiling water

It is important that both parents and young people and children take seriously the recommendation NOT to make these absurd challenges, which leave side effects for life. Burns from boiling water are painful and as we can see, they can be deadly.