Hot water bottle EXPLODES leaving disabled teenager, 18, with third-degree burns trends now

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A disabled teen has been left with third degree burns after her hot water bottle exploded over her leg.

Claire Hattam, 47, filled it up for her daughter Georgia, 18, to soothe her stomach pains. Minutes later she heard 'piercing screams' from her daughter's room.

Ms Hattam, a hospice health worker from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, immediately dialled 111 however there was a two hour wait for an ambulance.

Instead, she took Georgia, who suffers with autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes - a group of conditions that cause very flexible joints and stretchy and fragile - to the hospital herself as she was in excruciating pain.