Girl mysteriously catches fire in hospital
Published: 2013 February 20 08:20:57 (3072 Views)
An 11-year-old cancer survivor has survived another, more unusual health scare.
She burst into flames at a hospital in Oregon, USA.
After hitting her head at school and losing consciousness, Ireland Lane was taken to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland.
In years past, Ireland had received extensive treatments for kidney cancer.
Ireland Lane was staying at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital for an unrelated head injury.
While playing in her bed on the day she was to leave the hospital, she suddenly ran screaming from the room, her T-shirt ablaze.
Her dad, Stephen Lane, who had dozed off nearby, ran after his daughter and smothered the flames himself.
LiveScience.com suggest handheld sanitizer could be to blame.
Officials in Oregon are researching a possible link between the cleanser and the mysterious blaze that ignited the 11-year-old girl’s T-shirt.
The girl is now scheduled for skin grafts to treat her injuries.
According to the Oregon Live story, Ireland suffered from third-degree burns.
Investigators have speculated that the freak occurrence might have happened as the girl was using the wall-mounted hand sanitizer to clean her art project, a painting.
The 3M product, supplied by the hospital, contains 61 percent alcohol, and might have interacted with static electricity from the hospital bedding—static electricity her father says he remembers Ireland trying to cause.
"I've been in medicine going back 30 years now and never heard anything like this. And hopefully I never will again," Dr. Stacy Nicholson, assistant chief at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, told local station KATU.
- Livescience
She burst into flames at a hospital in Oregon, USA.
After hitting her head at school and losing consciousness, Ireland Lane was taken to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland.
In years past, Ireland had received extensive treatments for kidney cancer.
Ireland Lane was staying at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital for an unrelated head injury.
While playing in her bed on the day she was to leave the hospital, she suddenly ran screaming from the room, her T-shirt ablaze.
Her dad, Stephen Lane, who had dozed off nearby, ran after his daughter and smothered the flames himself.
LiveScience.com suggest handheld sanitizer could be to blame.
Officials in Oregon are researching a possible link between the cleanser and the mysterious blaze that ignited the 11-year-old girl’s T-shirt.
The girl is now scheduled for skin grafts to treat her injuries.
According to the Oregon Live story, Ireland suffered from third-degree burns.
Investigators have speculated that the freak occurrence might have happened as the girl was using the wall-mounted hand sanitizer to clean her art project, a painting.
The 3M product, supplied by the hospital, contains 61 percent alcohol, and might have interacted with static electricity from the hospital bedding—static electricity her father says he remembers Ireland trying to cause.
"I've been in medicine going back 30 years now and never heard anything like this. And hopefully I never will again," Dr. Stacy Nicholson, assistant chief at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, told local station KATU.
- Livescience
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