“Sleeping with your mobile charging beside you isn’t uncommon but for one young mother, keeping her iPhone close at hand has had painful consequences,” Ruth Styles reports for The Daily Mail. “Dionne Baxter, 24, fell asleep lying across her charging iPhone 4 but woke up in agony the next day with a five inch burn on her breast. Ms. Baxter, a former warehouse worker from Purfleet in Essex, was rushed to hospital where doctors attempted to treat the wound with antibiotic cream and painkillers.”
“‘I sleep in the nude and this large red mark was all down one side to the nipple,’ Ms Baxter revealed in an interview with the Sun newspaper,” Styles reports. “‘When I touched the phone, it was so hot, I couldn’t pick it up.'”
Styles reports, “Ms Baxter, whose wound later became infected, now fears that she may not be able to breastfeed a second child should she have one.”
More infos and photos in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: She woke up with the burn already there or the burn woke her up? Sounds like the former – especially since she “fell asleep,” you know, “lying across her charging iPhone 4.” If so, what caused her to sleep through being burned by her iPhone? Also, the report doesn’t say either way, but we’d bet 100-1 that she used a third-party, unapproved (non-MFi) charger.
We know you love your iPhone, but do not sleep with it and NEVER try to save a few bucks using knock-off chargers/cables (Amazon and eBay, for just two examples, are littered with them). Use only Apple-approved (MFi labeled) chargers and cables.
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Faulty non-Apple charger, not iPhone 4, could have killed Chinese stewardess – July 17, 2013
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I despair for the species…..
As Steve once said, “Don’t hold it there” …
She should just be glad the iPhone doesn’t suck. At all.
I’ve known several people who tied one on and ended up starting a fire and killed by it (usually by cigarette in their hand that falls) before their alcohol or drug filled stupor-dulled bodies could react.
And you are just lucky that you have not done that yet? 😉
You might want to hang out with a different crowd…
What’s your problem jackass? One of the guys was a well liked crew member on a film that was in production who died suddenly this way, and horribly. Conscious and burned alive.
It’s like saying you know people who have been in car accidents and then your idiocy saying “You might want to hang out with a different crowd…” You never know when or where or to who such a thing might happen associating with anyone, not by advance notice. Even if it’s someone who is basically a decent human being but comes to a tragic end through carelessness.
You are typical of the online inhuman trolls pervading the Internet today. Think before typing junior.
So if someone said:
“I’ve known several people who died in car crashes”
You think that sounds normal? In over 50 years, I knew one person that died in a car accident. No drugs involved. I’ve don’t know of anyone, 3 levels out, that died under the very sad drugs/cigarette accident.
It’s not normal.
Who is enabling this over-the-top behavior?
Tragedy will befall people you know and don’t know and bears no reflection on me or you. We are responsible only for ourselves and maybe loved ones. We are not there to avert catastrophe when it happens out of the blue. Are you reallyTHIS cluelessly stupid junior? You live long enough you will have seen everything, like your ridiculous & immature post.
But this was Several people that you knew. Not the general public.
These sad catastrophes did not happen “out of the blue”.
You had no idea that they drank and smoked so much?
Did they supply counseling after the tragedy on the set?
Just because I knew them doesn’t mean there’s any reflection on me (or you) on these kinds of things. Though if you knew of problems you might try to help but often people don’t want the help. I am not an enabler as you seem to think when people choose to run their own lives as they see fit. I am not your brother or sister’s keeper nor they mine and neither are you as obligated.
Yet another friend of mine died suddenly recently (suddenly to me) and yes he had long term alcoholic problems that many of his friends, including me, didn’t know about. Complete liver and kidney shutdown. You have seen his work in some of the most famous movies out there. But the biz was moving away from needing his particular talents and he failed to communicate his problems to his friends.
The other fellow I can’t remember if there was counseling. We did plant a tree in his honor. That happened in Australia.
The stresses experienced by these people you knew must have been spectacularly debilitating. Those of us in high pressure situations on the factory floor or in the venom-drenched boardroom probably have no idea of the extremes you describe. I hypothesise that the entertainment industry carries a nasty charge of blowback that could stun many a pro. — more is at stake, it seems, even than in a political career.
You can not change an Alcoholic or Drug Addict unless they are on board with the change, and committed to it. No amount of caring friendship, love, counseling, etc. is going to make them give it up if THEY don’t desperately want to change themselves. Been there, done that with an ex-fiance who is also now dead (died post break up).
She should have removed all that silicon
I know one person that had a reduction and it removed the
sensation in her nipples…
Who knows what the woman in the story might have had done.
1st, she comes from Essex. 2nd, she has the thing in bed with her while charging. Major FAILs IMO. Electrical devices heat up while charging. Hardly surprising that if you cover it (flesh or whatever) the thing will generate heat in excess of normal & be capable 0f burning. Stupid is as stupid does…….
3rd it’s the Daily Mail
And they are quoting a Sun reporter….
Good call folks – forgot that.
Also known as the British version of the Weekly World News. Really, as soon as I saw the source, I mentally filed this under “bullsh*t”.
——RM
Quick thinking on her part to explain away that hickie on her breast to her mum!
thought only Amazon products burned off breasts.
Oh so very clever
tit for tat, as it were.
stop
I shoulda nipped it in the bud.
You let that one slip.
Now don’t you know that is a Genuine Sir Jony Ive one in a million tattoo! You’re a collectors item now girl!
OMG call the NAAPC!!! Call Obama!!! Call Holder!!! Another victim!!!!!!
Politics? How sad. What have You burned lately? Bridges?…
This took place in Essex (for those who have no clue where that it is, look at the map of the United Kingdom, more precisely, England…). For those still without a clue, US (Obama, holder, NAACP) have no jurisdiction of another country (UK).
Racist, much?
NAAPC? National Association for the Advancement of Personal Computers?
The question that wasn’t asked: was she on drugs or alcohol? Any normal person would have felt that heat and woken up. I smell a scam..
That’s not a scam you smell. It’s a burning breast. Although they do smell the same.
How is a skin burn that is treated with a topical antibiotic cream and painkillers going to endanger her ability to breastfeed a second child? I think a much more realistic concern is that she not leave her iPad charging in her baby’s crib while the baby is sleeping.
‘endanger her ability to breastfeed a second child’, good grief, what’s she going to do or not do with the other one? Leave it flapping in the breeze. She does have two of ’em, doesn’t she?…
No. She burned the other one ironing her shirt.
Sounds painful, especially the infection on her nipple part, and sorry for her. However, this is really a “people too attached to their tech” article than an iPhone article. New app idea: Boob Warning, alerts you when your boob is getting hot enough to burn or if Steve Ballmer is close bye.
At least she has hot boobs!
And warm milk… just squirt a little on the wrist to make sure it’s not too hot for the child before feeding.
#1.) Last I checked, most females of the human species are blessed with 2 mammary glands. Problem solved.
#2.) She took a picture just after waking up?? That wouldn’t have been my first objective.
#3.) Her breast is bleeding from this! (I looked at the pictures – and read article). Second degree burns don’t cause immediate bleeding without other preexisting damage present. Is this a cover up job to something more nefarious?
And finally,
#4.) how does one not notice a hot object on your most sensitive of body tissues – unless you’re just a wee bit too snookered by a good bottle of the fairies dew, blessed by the old queen mother herself?
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#4.) how does one not notice a hot object on your most sensitive of body tissues – unless you’re just a wee bit too snookered by a good bottle of the fairies dew, blessed by the old queen mother herself?
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Well, there is the "cooking a frog" aspect. Had an object hot enough to immediately produce the burn been applied to her skin she probably would have noticed it right away. However, if a "slow cook" form of heat was applied (and the iPhone would probably qualify here) she might not have noticed it.
Not to say she wasn't stupid, but I can see how the burn could have occurred slowly; 1st degree anyway.
What I don’t get is how she didn’t roll over at least once during the night. I’m no sleep expert, to be sure, but I didn’t think the human body allowed itself to sleep all night in one position (disregarding the effects of *influencers* shall we say).
My girlfriend has a hot pair, but her phone is a 5S…..
Where in the world was that thing plugged in to be charging on her breast? 8\
How long a lead must she have been using to have the phone in bed while charging?
Supplied leads are nowhere near long enough, so it must have been 3rd-party.
Therein may lie the problem.
In any case, having any electrical device in bed while it’s charging is bloody stupid, and asking for trouble.
Silly cow.
“…having any electrical device in bed… is bloody stupid”
Like an electric blanket?
My iPhones have long been charged at night by an Apple iPad power adapter using a Griffin Technologies 6′ USB cable designed specifically to be a long charging cable — it’s substantially thicker than those supplied with Apple devices for their shorter length. And since the Lightning connector came out, there’s a 30-pin to Lightning adapter on the business end of the Griffin cable.
Sure an iPhone charging while under a pillow is going to get hotter than one out in the open air, but I’ve never felt an iPhone as hot from charging as they get from charging while running Maps or TomTom!
I think she was under an influencer and fell asleep with some poorly written app running. But I’m dubious about the 2nd degree burns part.
Yup, there are definitely STUPID, MORONIC people out there….
Ah, the smell of charred breast in the morning. Smells like — stupidity.
Add “Don’t sleep with it next to your breast” to the list of warnings that come with every electronic device right next to “don’t stand in a bath tub full of water when operating this device,” and “don’t stand on your roof holding onto a TV antenna while using this device.”
Caution, device may be hot. Don’t put it on your lap while going through a McDonald’s drive-through.
I think the insulting and crass remarks here are pretty asinine. It’s not that she didn’t do anything wrong, it’s just that making snide remarks like that is totally dickish.
As for the young woman, I don’t think she has much of a case. Why not? Because if she had read her iPhone manual, she would have seen this:
“iPhone and its power adapter comply with applicable surface temperature standards and limits. However, even within these limits, sustained contact with warm surfaces for long periods of time may cause discomfort or injury. Use common sense
to avoid situations where your skin is in contact with a device or its power adapter when it’s operating or plugged into a power source for long periods of time. For example, don’t sleep or place a device or power adapter under a blanket, pillow, or your body when it’s plugged into a power source.”
Source: http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
I think the word she’ll be looking for is “D’oh!”
The comments on that article are just as funny as on this one! Hahaha… I call fake on this. Why is the iPhone wet in the photo? How did a rectangular 4-inch device make such an odd-shaped 5+ inch burn without her waking up to it. At first, I was going to call MDN out on their Take about turning this article into a jab against third-party chargers, but maybe that’s legitimate… maybe the cord between the charger and the phone heated up and melted, and the phone itself wasn’t at fault? Oh… poor girl, but my sympathy is lacking here. Until I see some believable facts and proof…