Baby left covered in 'blisters and burns' after wearing Asda nappy for just 5 hours

Rachel Hynd, 23, from Fife, rushed her lad Thomas to the GP aft helium endured achy burns from wearing a nappy from Asda. She is informing others to enactment distant from the brand

A mum has issued a informing to parents aft her baby was near with "blisters and burns" from an Asda nappy which helium had worn for conscionable 5 hours.

Rachel Hynd, 23, from Dunfermline, Fife, urged parents to beryllium cautious erstwhile utilizing the supermarket range, Little Angels, which enactment her lad done a "living hell". The backstage carer said her 13-month-old, Thomas, was reddish earthy aft wearing the nappy for conscionable 5 hours.

The mum of 2 says helium suffered from "blister-like" wounds which near him "crying successful pain". She said she had lone used Asda's due to the fact that her go-to Pampers was retired of stock. But the determination sparked an exigency travel to the GP, who prescribed Thomas with burns treatment.

Rachel says she wants to rise consciousness astir the disastrous effects of the nappy. The supermarket concatenation has since apologised for the ordeal, but said its nappies conscionable "rigorous information standards". Speaking astir the ordeal, Rachel said: "I usually bargain Pampers nappies but they were retired of banal truthful I had to bargain what I thought was the adjacent champion happening whilst successful the supermarket that day, which was the Asda's Little Angels nappies.

"The nappy was connected him for 5 hours. I usually enactment him down and I don't perceive from him until the adjacent morning. I woke up to my lad successful implicit hysterics, crying successful pain. I'd ne'er heard him shriek similar that before. He's a precise well-contented baby.

"When I pulled backmost his nappy, I thought 'what the hellhole is this?' His nappy wasn't soiled, his nappy was dry. It was astir similar the urine had stuck to his tegument and the Asda nappy hadn't extracted the urine. There were cuts, blisters and scabs. I realised it was a burn. It was blistered and bleeding. The nappy was the lone happening helium had travel into interaction with. No child should person to spell done that."

Rachel took small Thomas to her GP who prescribed a people of attraction to soothe his wounds. Rachel said: "He couldn't beryllium successful his precocious chair, helium couldn't crawl about. I couldn't enactment him successful a car spot oregon successful the pram. He couldn't enactment immoderate unit connected his bottom.

"It was a surviving hell. It was truly hard to manage. The burns person healed but helium inactive has a scar connected his bottom. I felt highly blameworthy that I had purchased these nappies and enactment them connected him. It was a surviving nightmare. When I pulled backmost that nappy, I ne'er expected to beryllium met with that."

Rachel added: "I contacted Asda the time it happened, and they've been successful interaction asking maine to instrumentality the nappies. I don't privation immoderate different kid to spell done what we went through. It was appalling. I'll ne'er spell adjacent these products again. I'd alternatively thrust to the extremity of the world to get antithetic nappies."

Asda said that Little Angels nappies were the archetypal supermarket marque to person been tested and accredited by the Skin Health Alliance. The SHA appointed a technological reappraisal committee to independently measure the probe and improvement down the subject of Little Angels nappies and First Pants. The supermarket explained that due to the fact that a baby's tegument is delicate, it tin respond to vulnerability to urine and that nappy rash tin often beryllium much terrible successful babies with precise delicate skin.

A spokesperson for Asda said: "We were atrocious to perceive astir Ms Hynd's acquisition with this product. The nappies she purchased person been tested by an autarkic laboratory, which confirmed they conscionable each our rigorous information standards. We merchantability implicit 10 cardinal packs of Little Angels nappies each twelvemonth and each 1 is thoroughly tested earlier it reaches our shelves.

"In addition, our nappies are accredited by the Skin Health Alliance, whose probe shows our nappies cannot origin chemic burns due to the fact that they are made from inert materials and conform to internationally recognised standards."