A South Carolina resort will pay $26 million to the family of a child who suffered serious chemical burns from an overchlorinated pool, an attorney for the family said.
According to a federal lawsuit, the North Carolina family sued Myrtle Beach’s Caribbean Resort, after their then 3-year-old child suffered severe burns from the pool when they visited in May 2020.
The lawsuit on behalf of Heather Douglas, the little boy’s mother said she noticed her son Ashtyn Douglas’ “groin and buttocks” were red after they finished swimming in the resort’s pools and lazy rivers on May 25, 2020.
Douglas applied some lotion on Ashtyn and headed home. The next day, she noticed that his skin began to blister and took him to his pediatrician who prescribed him Bactroban. However, the next day, the blisters got worse, and Douglas took her child back to the pediatrician.
Ashtyn was then sent to a local hospital, before being transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Burn Center.
There, the blisters were diagnosed “as chemical burns related to exposure to an overchlorinated pool at the Caribbean Resort and Villas,” the lawsuit said.