{"id":8478,"date":"2018-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/30\/teen-boy-suffers-serious-burns-after-hot-water-challenge\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:06:50","slug":"teen-boy-suffers-serious-burns-after-hot-water-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/30\/teen-boy-suffers-serious-burns-after-hot-water-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Boy Suffers Serious Burns After &#8216;Hot Water Challenge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Other children have also been seriously burned while participating in this &#8216;fad&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, July 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An Indianapolis teen suffered serious burns after his friends poured boiling hot water on him as part of fad called the &#8220;Hot Water Challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boiling water was poured on Kyland Clark, 15, as he slept. He suffered second-degree burns to his body and face, <i>Fox News<\/i> reported. The incident occurred after Clark and his friends had watched videos of the challenge on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Clark spent a week in the hospital. His doctors are hopeful that pigment will return in Clark&#8217;s face within a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, an 11-year-old girl in New York suffered face and chest burns after friends poured hot water on her. Also last summer, an 8-year-old girl suffered fatal throat injuries after she tried to drink boiling water through a straw, <i>Fox News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2018\/07\/30\/hot-water-challenge-reportedly-leaves-teen-with-second-degree-burns.html\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other children have also been seriously burned while participating in this &#8216;fad&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}