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Urgent Warning Issued As Popular Drink Leaves Toddler Unresponsive
An urgent warning has been issued as a popular drink left a toddler unresponsive.
Kim Moore, 35, faced every parent’s worst nightmare when her daughter, Marnie, then four, suddenly became ‘pale and unresponsive’ at a children’s party.
Terrified, the mom-of-two rushed the little girl to A&E, where doctors found that her blood sugar levels were concerningly low.
Now, Moore is warning others of the potential dangers.
The toddler and her older sister, Orla, six, had had a refillable slushy. 10 minutes later, Marnie fell unconscious.
The mom, from Burnley, Lancashire, recounted: “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.
“She wasn’t rousing at all, and I think it was mom’s instinct that I knew something wasn’t right. She was floppy and completely unconscious.
“I was shaking her, trying to wake her up, and there was nothing.”
Moore was horrified when doctors told her that her child’s medical episode was caused by the slush-ice drink she’d consumed.
The call center team now suspects Marie suffered glycerol toxicity.
“I had no clue what had caused it. She was unconscious for around 25 minutes while they brought her blood sugars up,” the mom 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.
“Doctors couldn’t tell me why it had happened, but they knew it was the slushy that had caused it. I went into investigative mum mode, trying to work out why this had happened to my child.”
Marnie, now nine, was discharged from the hospital after three days. Ever since, Moore has banned her from ordering a slushy drink.
A new study warned that children younger than eight shouldn’t be given slushy drinks containing the sweetener glycerol, as researchers tracked the case of 21 kids who fell ill after consuming them.
Moore, who labels slushy drinks ‘poison,’ believes the recommended age for the iced drink should be 12.
“So many places promote free slushies when you play there, but you’re promoting poison,” she declared.
“I don’t think these slushies should 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.
“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.”
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