A familiar saying about playing with fire is sure to ring true for a severely burned 12-year-old boy living in Queens, NY, following his apparent attempt earlier this May to pull off a reckless social media challenge.
As reported by the New York Post, the unidentified 12-year-old went into his bathroom at 8:30 p.m. on May 24, doused himself with rubbing alcohol while standing in the bathtub and set himself on fire. Though he planned to quickly extinguish himself, he was apparently unable to turn on the shower and ran out into the street with the upper half of his body still aflame. After being put out by neighbors and taken to the Nassau University Medical Center Burn Center, doctors determined he ended up with third degree burns that covered at least 40 percent of his body.
Though the boy is expected to pull though, the type of injuries he suffered are known to be especially devastating.
“The burns penetrate the skin and soft tissue and then involve the muscle,” Dr. Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency room physician at Lennox Hill Hospital in nearby Manhattan, told CBS 2. “As they penetrate you lose fluid, causing dehydration and it causes all these inflammatory markers that drop your blood pressure and can put you into shock.”
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