A 15-year-old girl was referred to our centre at day 3 post-burn to her thigh. She dropped a small amount of nail glue onto her thigh when she had been applying nail glue on to her fake nails (Fig. 1). The nail glue remained in contact for a total of 5 min before she felt the burning sensation. She then removed her trousers and noticed the burns. No first aid was instituted. She attended the local emergency department (ED) on the same day. At her initial assessment, the wound was irrigated for 30 min with cold water and dressed, then she was discharged home. However, she returned to the ED 2 days later due to increasing erythema around the burn. She was started on oral antibiotics and was referred to the burns centre. On examination, a 0.5 % total body surface area (TBSA) burn of mixed depth was observed on the upper medial aspect of her right thigh (Fig. 2), and it was approximately 7 x 5 cm in size. She was initially managed with Mepilex  Ag (Molnlycke Health Care, Gothenburg, Sweden) and then with flamazine cream and daily dressings.
She was reviewed a week later, and due to the delayed wound healing, she was counselled to proceed with surgical excision of the burn and reconstruction with split-thickness skin grafting. The patient underwent surgery and was discharged home the same day. The graft was successful and healed completely without complications within 2 weeks.