Key Highlights
- A 9-year-old boy is recovering after a popular toy caused second-degree burns to his face and hands.
- Caleb Chabolla, a fourth-grader in Illinois, was injured after heating up a NeeDoh in the microwave late last month. The NeeDoh, a sensory toy similar to a stress ball, is described on the company’s website as a "gratifying super soft, super stretchy dough filled groovy glob." WISCONSIN MOM CALLS FOR CHANGE AFTER HER 10-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER DIES FROM SWALLOWING A WATER BEAD After microwaving the toy to soften it, Chabolla removed it and began squeezing it when it exploded in his face.
- Caleb Chabolla, a fourth-grader in Illinois, was injured after heating up a NeeDoh in the microwave late last month.
- (Whitney Grubb) "I heard him screaming loudly and saw him take off running toward the bathroom, and he just kept yelling, ‘it burns, it burns,’" Whitney Grubb, the boy’s mother, told Fox News Digital. Grubb saw that the right side of Chabolla’s face was covered in a thick gel, with bright red skin underneath.
- She initially tried to wash off the substance, but it was too painful, so she drove her son to the emergency room.
