A baby boy suffered third degree burns after he was doused with boiling water when a vegetable steamer tipped over .
Little Dougie Dodd almost died after nine litres of scalding fluid landed on him as he played on the kitchen floor while his mum made dinner.
The one-year-old 's face, neck, chest, hands and feet were badly burned in the terrifying accident.
His mum Nadia Hulse was cooking and video chatting with her mum when the horrifying drama unfolded, Mirror Online reports.
She recalled Dougie, who had been playing with pots and pans on the floor, reach towards the steamer with a spoon.
The 25-year-old said: "I was right next to Dougie when it happened. I shouted, 'Dougie, no!' which startled him.
"As he jumped back the handle of the spoon got caught on the wire and the vegetable steamer tipped over.
"I stripped Dougie and raced him upstairs into a cold bath but he was screaming hysterically and trying to out of the bath and on to me."
Nadia's mum called an ambulance after watching the incident unfold on FaceTime in March this year.
Dougie was rushed to Birmingham Children's Hospital with burns covering half of his body.
"He was touch-and-go in the hospital at one point and I couldn't stop crying. I was an absolute mess," she said.
Receptionist Nadia, who lives in Cannock, Staffordshire, was told her son had to undergo skin grafting where doctors took skin from Dougie's thigh to cover his left wrist and chest.
But it wasn't the end of Dougie's harrowing ordeal.
On 14 March, doctors diagnosed toxic shock syndrome - a potentially fatal condition caused by an infection.
Dougie's blood pressure soared and he needed an oxygen mask to breathe. Doctors were then forced to administer a blood plasma transfusion.
But the brave boy fought back and within hours of the transfusion he was showing signs of recovery.
He was finally discharged on April 8.
Seven months later Dougie, now two, still wears a compression vest at night to try to reduce scarring.
Nadia said: "Dougie is such a happy, lively little boy and has not changed his outgoing personality one bit.
"But I still feel guilt. I know it was a freak accident and the only thing I could have done differently was not let him play with the saucepans.
"I worry about him growing up with his scars but will constantly reassure him every day of how brave he was and how beautiful he is with his scars."
