A mum was forced to fly home early from her 'holiday from hell' after suffering horror burns on giant hogweed - leaving her needing to wear gloves whenever she leaves the house.
Lucy Jones was on holiday last month in Cadiz, Spain, with husband Max Jones, 31, and three-year-old daughter Lily when she noticed a burning sensation on her right hand last month. The mum says her skin erupted in agonising blisters and looked as though her hand 'had been dipped in boiling water'.
Horrified, she rushed to a pharmacy where staff dressed it and gave her steroids for contact dermatitis. But the pain became so severe the family were forced to cut their holiday short by three days and fork out £300 for an earlier flight back to the UK.
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The 29-year-old mum went to Maidstone A&E in Maidstone, Kent, where medics were initially left stumped as to what had caused the blistering burns. After being transferred to the burns unit a doctor who had seen the symptoms before said she must have come into contact with the toxic plant.
There, Lucy had the tops of her blisters scraped off and her hand dressed - a procedure she described as 'painful and traumatising'. Once her hands have fully healed, Lucy will have to slap on sunscreen three times a day and wear SPF gloves to protect her scorched skin from the sun.
Lucy, from Maidstone, Kent, said: "I woke up and my hand was red and sore and it looked like a sunburn. I went to a pharmacy because it was getting worse, it was a really horrible burning feeling.
