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After Eating A Popular Beverage, A Toddler Became Unresponsive, Prompting Specialists To Issue An Urgent Warning Against The “Dangerous” Beverage
A mother has joined specialists in warning about the risks of a popular iced drink for young children after her daughter, age four, was left “floppy and unconscious” after consuming it.
The UK’s Kim Moore was at a children’s party with her daughter Marnie when the young girl unexpectedly passed out.
The 35-year-old mother of two, terrified and unable to wake Marnie, hurried her and her elder sister, Orla, to the hospital, where medical professionals found that Marnie’s blood sugar levels were dangerously low.
Doctors investigating Marnie’s illness concluded that the simple, beloved slushy she had been drinking minutes before she passed out was the reason for her low blood sugar levels.
Moore explained, “We ended up buying two one-litre refillable cups and they were going off playing, eating, getting drinks and coming back but Marnie didn’t drink the full cup, probably only half.”
“Then about 10 minutes later, she started getting really aggravated then she started falling asleep so I just thought she was over-tired. It was only five minutes later when I tried to wake her up that I realized she wasn’t waking up and was actually unconscious. She’d gone really pale.”
Marnie spent a total of three days in the hospital after going unconscious for around twenty-five minutes while medical professionals tried to raise her blood sugar levels.
Moore now thinks that her daughter has glycerol poisoning, which is a disease that can cause headaches, nausea, shock, and even unconsciousness.
She said: “In hospital, she screamed out in agony saying her head hurt and threw up everywhere.”
“Looking back, she had every single symptom of glycerol toxicity. We got transferred to another hospital and they had no idea what had caused it. We started looking into the slushy because that was the only thing differently she’d had that day.”
Moore is now an outspoken opponent of slushies, calling them “poison” and saying they shouldn’t “be allowed at all.”
“I personally wouldn’t allow my child to drink one at all. It’s not a risk I’m willing to take,” she said. “I don’t think they should be sold to kids 12 and under in all honesty. I wouldn’t wish what we went through on our worst enemy. It was awful.”
Moore’s cautions follow worrying discoveries in the cases of 21 children who became unwell after consuming slush-ice beverages containing the sweetener glycerol, prompting specialists to advise against giving them to youngsters younger than eight.
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