Doreen Ghiloni's bedroom was engulfed in flames after the Hottie bag started smouldering. A neighbour helped the frail 82-year-old grandmother to escape without burns.
But she died in hospital the next day of a suspected heart attack caused by breathing in smoke.
Her family has warned of the dangers of the increasingly popular hot water bottle-shaped bags.
It is thought Mrs Ghiloni, a former machine operator from Leeds, may have overheated the wheat-filled warmer. Users are advised to put a small cup of cold water in the microwave with the bag, but her son Ian believes she had failed to do this.
Ironically, Mrs Ghiloni's relatives had given her the bag, made by Aroma Home UK, because they were concerned she might be scalded using a kettle to fill her old traditional hot water bottle.
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