Kathleen Quinn was taking part in a popular do-it-yourself project at her Massachusetts home.
However, shortly afterwards she noticed her hands were in pain.
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She said her skin felt “really hot and tingly.”
Her parents took her to a local hospital and found out she had second- and third-degree burns.
“She was crying in pain, ‘My hands hurt, my hands hurt,’” said Siobhan Quinn, Kathleen’s mother. “We looked at them and they were covered in blisters.”
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Doctors determined that Kathleen’s blisters came from extended exposure to borax, which is an ingredient in some homemade slime recipes.