To the Editor: A previously well 21-month-old boy presented with burns on his right thigh. His mother had been making popcorn in a domestic popcorn machine while holding the baby about a metre from the machine to watch it churning out the popcorn through a chute into a bowl. Soon after the corn started to pop, the baby screamed, pointing to his right thigh. The mother immediately removed his nappy and found an unpopped corn kernel lodged between the nappy and the thigh.
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Acknowledgement: I thank Ms S Wright at Medical Illustration, Townsville Hospital, for assistance with the photograph.