It’s unbelievable that this injury was caused by a lolly.
It was a normal day like any other. Mum Hayley woke up and started getting her son Lachlan ready. However, a lolly eaten on the sly before breakfast changed the course of their entire day because that lolly allegedly did this to Lachlan’s tongue.
Hayley posted this photo of Lachlan's injury on Facebook shortly after, saying:
I really felt the need to share this photo: this happened after he was eating sour war head candy. It has burnt a hole in his tongue.
We spoke to Hayley to find out exactly what happened.
This is the first time Lachlan has this kind of war head. They are very small, the size of the burn. Lachlan's uncle had brought him these as a little present and Lachlan had snuck one in when he woke up in the morning. He came in and complained his tongue hurt so I got him to open his mouth and it was very red and had burnt through a layer or two of skin.
It seems that he isn't the only one to have suffered a WARHEAD-related-injury. There's even a phrase that describes the common tongue and mouth irritation associated with them. It's called 'sour burn'.
Thankfully Lachlan is healing quickly. By the afternoon it looked like this:
WARHEAD Sour Candies are an incredibly hard, super-sour lolly that kids seem to love to torture themselves with. They contain the ingredient 'malic acid' which creates the extreme sour taste before the sweetness, thankfully, comes through. They are marketed as an 'extreme candy' by makers Impact Confections.
The company frequently challenges kids to compete to see who can eat the most at once and hang on through the intense sour layers. Their website is filled with the results of these competitions and it all seems like great fun, until it leaves a boy, like Lachlan, in extreme pain and unable to eat.
