A woman says her 'skin peeled off' after a hot water burst over her legs and privates - as she didn't realise it was years 'out of date'. Savannah Baker reached for her trusty six-year-old hot water bottle to relieve her period cramps after painkillers weren't helping.

After filling her water bottle half-way full with boiling kettle water, the 27-year-old shoved the heating product down her trousers to rest on her bare skin. But when she went to pick up her cat's bowl off the floor of her kitchen, she says it exploded - pouring scalding water on her lower tummy, groin and both legs.

In the panicked moments after the left-side seam of the bottle split open, the loans and mortgage administrator rushed into the shower. She stood under a stream of cold water for 30 minutes to try and ease th

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