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By Eleanor Ovens & Charlie Duffield A carer experienced such horrendous burns that she was confined to a wheelchair for weeks and scarred for life when her hot water bottle exploded on her. It was well within the use-by date, but Jade Parsons-Mayle could not walk for more than a month after her hot water bottle ruptured all over her legs and groin region. The 33-year-old had kept it tucked into her pyjama bottoms to keep her warm and relieve her period pains. Nevertheless, a little later the bottle exploded beneath Jade’s clothes, with boiling hot water leaking onto her lower stomach, groin, l…

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