Mum's warning after baby suffers horrific burns when teapot spilled on him in café

A mum has thanked a nurse whose quick action helped her baby son after he suffered serious burns from a teapot. The nurse's knowledge of 'just the right timings' for applying cold water to the wound saved one-year-old Mason from a more severe reaction, doctors have said.

Carrie Doyle has issued a warning to other parents and vowed never to drink a cup of tea in the same room as her son again following the incident at a café. She and son Mason were on their way to playgroup when she stopped at St George's Restaurant in Gravesend, Kent, on June 23.

The stay-at-home mum believes that Mason may have pulled the teapot over himself, scalding his legs, as well as his hands and stomach - though no one saw the accident occur. The poor tot faced a gruelling four-hour operation to perform a skin graft to the most severely burned areas of his legs.

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The 38-year-old says that things could have been a lot worse had it not been for an off-duty nurse who happened to be present and was able to get the youngster under cold water. While no one knows how the accident occurred, Carrie says the ordeal has left her so worried about hot drinks that she will never have one around her child again. Carrie said: "I was pushing the pram so a waitress said 'I'll bring it over' so I walked to an empty table with Mason and kind of parked him up at an angle.

"She's followed me over and all I heard her say was 'I'll leave this here'. Then by the time I looked at [Mason] and his face told me that something wasn't right. I bent down to him and I felt the heat coming off his clothes and that's when it dawned on me what had