The little boy’s finger had reached “the size of a plum ” In just a few hours. This is what Brooklyn Bone’s mother, Hether Irving, in the British media The Mirror.
A stealthy contact with the crash of the Caucasus
It all started on the morning of Friday July 18. The 3 -year -old child complains of finger pain. “”I noticed a small blister on the side of its nail. I immediately understood that something was wrong, because it appeared overnight. He was crying, showing me his finger, we couldn’t touch him and he was shaking“, Recalls the mother. In the evening, the blister was quadrupled in volume and was filled with pus.
HETHER then decides to take her child to the emergency room. There, doctors diagnose: Brooklyn has been in contact with a plant called Caucasus hinged. For Ether, contact with this plant took place the day before. “I think he picked up a flower by going to the crèche on Thursday morning, he had to touch the plant at that time. He was only exposed a few minutes!“The mother is surprised.
The burn has left irreversible consequences
After piercing the bulb and withdrawn the liquid inside, the doctors sent the little one in a service that supports the burned patients. Contact with the plant had caused second degree burns. “”The medical team said it would take up to four weeks for a complete healing, and we returned to the hospital twice to change the dressings. Each time, it was very painful, but the nurses were excellent “said Ether. The burn has left irreversible after -effects since Brooklyn will have to be very careful in the future concerning her sun exposure. He will always have to apply SPF50 sunscreen to his finger before each sun exposure.
How to recognize the crash of the Caucasus?
The crash of the Caucasus is an invasive plant which comes from the Caucasus region. Its sap contains furocoumarins, phototoxic substances that prevent the skin from protecting itself from the sun. Contact of the skin with this plant can cause burns called phytodermatitis. In France, the crash of the Caucasus is present in a large northeast quarter of France (in particular in Hauts-de-France) and in the Alps. But it regularly progresses southwest.
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Caucasus crash
This plant generally grows on the edge of rivers and flowers in June and July. It can reach 3.5 m high and 2m major. It looks like wild chervil, with thick stems spotted with purple. Its flowers are white and grouped in umbelle (in the shape of a sphere or a dome), turned upwards.