Boy, 6, suffers severe scalding after mulled wine accidentally poured over him while visiting Belton House Christmas light display near Grantham

A six-year-old boy has suffered life-changing injuries after a hot drink was accidentally spilled on him while out on a family outing.

Kirsty and Sam Davis and their four children visited the Christmas lights trail at Belton House, near Grantham, when all of a sudden, Kirsty heard an “awful scream” from her six-year-old son Noah.

She quickly realised that Noah had been scalded after someone had spilt a glass of scolding mulled wine over him.

Kirsty said: “I felt sick when I realised he had been scalded and we saw all of the blisters appearing and the skin was already peeling off his shoulders.”

Reacting quickly, Kirsty took off Noah’s coat and top and poured cold water onto his wounds.

An ambulance was called and Noah was taken to the children’s burns unit at Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham.

The incident happened on Friday, December 16, and as a result of his injuries, Noah underwent two surgeries and has been in and out of hospital over Christmas.

He had managed to get home on Christmas Eve, but on Boxing Day he was taken into hospital again as his wounds were seeping through his bandages.

“Our Christmas has really been ruined”, said Kirsty.

She added: “This has really affected our Christmas as we haven’t been able to spend much quality time as a family and have relied on family members to have our other children of whom two have quite significant additional needs.”

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Following his injuries, Kirsty said that Noah is “quite withdrawn” and doesn’t let anyone touch him.

“He won’t let anyone cuddle him”, added Kirsty, who lives in Peterborough.

Belton House have said they are aware of the incident and are working with event managers at Raymond Gubbay Limited, a third party vendor who worked with Belton House for the annual Christmas light display.

A spokesperson for the National Trust, which oversees Belton House, said: “The safety and wellbeing of our visitors is really important to us.

“We are aware of the incident at Belton on December 16 and have been working closely with the event managers Raymond Gubbay Limited to investigate what happened."

A spokesperson for Raymond Gubbay Limited said they could not “comment further” while an investigation was underway but their “thoughts go out to the child and family involved”.

Kirsty feels that the “nightmare” incident could have been prevented if the hot drink had had a lid on it.

She added: “We feel the area was too crowded, the drinks served too hot and of course if it had had a lid on his injuries wouldn't have been as severe.”

Noah is due to have a skin graft next week, a procedure where skin is removed from an unaffected area of the body to cover damaged skin.

“Noah is likely to have life long scarring”, added Kirsty.

She said: “We also fear he will have some level of psychological damage as he's now fearful of hot drinks but also doctors which is going to make recovery difficult when he will regularly need to see doctors for reviews.”

Kirsty also encourages other parents to ask for lids on any hot drinks, to prevent something like what has happened to her son from happening again. She shared Noah’s story on social media in a bid to help other families and it has been so far shared nearly 3,000 times.

She added: “We beg people to please always request a lid on hot drinks especially around children.

“We also want future Christmas vendors to ensure they protect other children from this happening by serving drinks at a lower temperature as we've now heard there have been multiple Christmas displays serving drinks without lids!”