“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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