Dangerous TikTok trend leaves boy badly burned as doctors issue warning

A 9-year-old boy is recovering after a popular toy caused second-degree burns to his face and hands.

Caleb Chabolla, a fourth-graderin Illinois, was injured after heating up a NeeDoh in the microwave late last month.

The NeeDoh,a sensory toysimilar to a stress ball, is described on the company’s website as a “gratifying super soft, super stretchy dough filled groovy glob.”

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After microwaving the toy to soften it, Chabolla removed it and began squeezing it when it exploded in his face.

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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�

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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.

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The doctors at Loyola informed Grubb that they had recently treated four other children who had been burned by heating up NeeDohs, stemming from a viral trend on TikTok.(Whitney Grubb)

The doctors at Loyola informed Grubb that they had recently treated four other children who had been burned by heating up NeeDohs, stemming from aviral trendon TikTok.

“Caleb had heard about it through word of mouth through friends at school,” Grubb said.

After two weeks of recovery and daily wound cleanings, Chabolla was released toreturn to schoolon Wednesday.

warn other parentsabout the potential dangers of putting these types of toys in the microwave.

“For the most part, Caleb is just happy to be back at school to see his friends, so he’s in better spirits now,” the boy�(Whitney Grubb)

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“It’s hard to micromanage every little thing your kid does, and unfortunately, kids are going to experiment and try things — they don’t know the risks of these kinds of things, and they don’t know how hot things can get in a short amount of time.”

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