Parents demand iced-slushy drinks are banned after toddler collapses
Parents are demanding that iced slushies are banned from kids’s leisure venues after a variety of circumstances of younger youngsters collapsing after consuming the drinks.
Beth Green, 24, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, confronted each mother or father’s worst nightmare when her four-year-old son Albie grew to become unresponsive after having a small strawberry-flavoured slushy whereas out bowling with a good friend.
Scottish mom Victoria Anderson additionally shared how her three-year-old son Angus virtually died in January after consuming a slushy – falling unconscious in her arms and being rushed to hospital.
Another mom has come ahead to share the story of her three-year-old son who grew to become unresponsive and was hospitalised after consuming a slush pet. ‘We have been informed by the paramedics if we had presumed he was simply drained from the enjoyable and put him to mattress, we’d have been taking a look at a really completely different story,’ she informed.
A petition has been arrange and has up to now acquired tons of of signatures calling for a ban of those drinks from kids’s leisure venues, after the Food Standards Agency issued trade steerage on glycerol in slush-ice drinks, advising that they shouldn’t be offered to kids 4 years and beneath.
A petition has been arrange and has up to now acquired tons of of signatures calling for a ban of those drinks from kids’s leisure venues
Beth Green, 24, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, has revealed her unconscious tot was hospitalised and feared he’d die an hour after downing an iced slushy drink
Beth grew more and more involved when Albie began ‘hallucinating’ and ‘clawing at his face’ – prompting the mom to hurry him to hospital
Angus (pictured), from Port Glasgow, was rapidly bluelighted to Glasgow Children’s Hospital, the place Victoria was given the information that the three-year-old had suffered from glycerol toxicity – which may be brought on by the consumption of slushies
Mother Victoria Anderson, 29, with father Sean Donnelly, 29, and their sons Angus (left), 3, and Archie (proper), 5
‘Following a danger evaluation by the Food and Standards Agency, we imagine slush drinks containing glycerol ought to be banned from being offered at kids’s leisure amenities akin to smooth play, trampoline parks, theme parks and different kids’s venues,’ the petition says.
‘Glycerol is an ingredient in slush drinks and the FSA has recognized that extreme quantities of glycerol may cause complications and illness, and there have been circumstances the place kids have been hospitalised due to ‘glycerol intoxication‘.
‘The FSA has suggested that slush drinks containing glycerol shouldn’t be offered to kids 4 years of age and beneath. They additionally suggested that retailers shouldn’t supply free refill promotions to under-10s.
‘I would really like these drinks to be banned from sale at kids’s leisure venues together with smooth play, trampoline parks, theme parks and different youngsters venues.’
Parents have additionally taken to social media to share the warning, together with their very own tales.
One mom posted a warning about slush pet drinks on Facebook and requested individuals to share it to lift consciousness of ‘this hazard’.
She stated they have been at a neighborhood leisure venue, which she selected to not identify as she stated it’s being investigated, when her son shared a jug of slushy with two others ‘which equalled one and a half small paper cups.’
Within an hour, she stated her son, aged three and a half, complained of a abdomen ache and appeared drained, however she thought this wasn’t uncommon as they’d had a busy afternoon.
The Food Standards Agency issued trade steerage on glycerol in slush-ice drinks, advising that they shouldn’t be offered to kids 4 years and beneath
The mom wrote: ‘He fell asleep on the way in which house, he was a bit grumpy once we tried to wake him for his dinner as soon as house, once more commonplace behaviour waking a 3.5year previous from a nap.
‘About half an hour later we woke him once more, however this time it was a bit tougher to evoke him and for him to remain awake, so we phoned 111 for recommendation. Whilst we have been on the telephone he quickly declined and all of a sudden grew to become unresponsive.
‘Two ambulances arrived inside minutes as he was classed as a class 1 emergency.’
The mom informed how her son’s respiration grew to become laboured and paramedics discovered his blood sugars have been low. The little one was blue lighted to hospital.
‘We’ve since came upon that there have been a few circumstances within the UK the place kids have been hospitalised after consuming slushy drinks and the Food Standard Agency recommends that kids beneath 4 haven’t got them – though one of many circumstances was a toddler over 4. It additionally states they should not drink extreme quantities, which he hadn’t,’ the mom continued.
She claimed a guide confirmed it was the slushy which had affected her son and that his case has been referred to the FSA and PCC.
‘We have been informed by the paramedics if we had presumed he was simply drained from the enjoyable and put him to mattress, we’d have been taking a look at a really completely different story.
‘That is likely one of the scariest issues, that one thing that has no warnings could possibly be so harmful! The warnings should not be non-obligatory! We would hate for this to occur to a different little one and for his or her mother and father to undergo what we did.’
Another mom additionally took to Facebook to disclose that after having a slush pet at a smooth play space her son fell asleep and and have become drowsy, torpid and unresponsive.
‘I took him straight to the medical doctors who phoned an ambulance as we couldn’t get him to return spherical, his blood sugar stage was 1.2.
‘After getting IV glucose on the way in which to the hospital he began to get up. After talking to the guide they’ve confirmed that it was this! The glycerol within the slushie is poisonous to small youngsters and brought about him to change into hypoglycaemic and unconscious.’
She described it because the scariest day of her life and stated she is sharing the story as a result of she would hate for it to occur to any extra kids. ‘Keep them AWAY from the slushies,’ she wrote in her publish.
Beth Green’s four-year-old son grew to become unresponsive after consuming a strawberry-flavoured slushy at an after-school bowling journey in October final 12 months.
She grew more and more frightened after Albie began ‘hallucinating’ and ‘clawing at his face’ – prompting her to hurry him to hospital.
Albie was admitted to hospital for 3 days earlier than his situation stabilised and he was capable of be introduced again house (pictured with mom Beth)
There medics needed to begin resuscitation as Albie’s blood sugar ranges had dropped to dangerously ranges.
At one stage his heartbeat grew to become so gradual his mother and father thought he would die.
Medics later informed the pair in the event that they hadn’t rushed Albie to hospital there after which he would have died.
Beth’s account got here simply days after Scottish mom Victoria Anderson shared how her three-year-old son Angus virtually died in January after consuming a slushy.
The 29-year-old, from Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, had taken her youngest son, three-year-old Angus, and an elder sibling out purchasing on January 4.
Not lengthy after the trio ventured out, Angus requested a raspberry-flavoured slushie after recognizing the intense, pink-coloured ice drink whereas in a neighborhood nook store.
Unaware of the hazard Victoria bought the drink for her son, who had ‘by no means had a slushy earlier than’.
Approximately half-hour later, whereas in one other retailer, the three-year-old unexpectedly collapsed and fell unconscious.
Victoria stated Angus’ physique was limp and ‘stone chilly’ as paramedics rushed to the scene and tried to revive him after his blood sugars grew to become dangerously low.
Angus was sped to Glasgow Children’s Hospital, the place he remained unconscious for 2 hours.
Both kids fortunately received the medical care they wanted.
Angus was rushed to hospital after falling unconscious after consuming a slushy
The Food Standard Agency (FSA) issued new voluntary trade steerage on glycerol in slush-ice drinks in August 2023, advising that they shouldn’t be offered to kids 4 years of age and beneath.
Manufacturers are additionally being suggested to inform retailers that they need to not supply free refill promotions to under-10s, to stop younger kids being uncovered to extreme quantities of glycerol.
The up to date steerage follows an FSA danger evaluation which discovered that kids under this age could endure from complications and illness brought on by publicity to glycerol.
The FSA stated additionally it is conscious of two circumstances in Scotland in, one in 2021 and one in 2022, the place kids have been hospitalised due to glycerol intoxication.
At very excessive ranges of publicity – usually when a number of of those merchandise are drunk by a toddler in a brief house of time – glycerol intoxication might trigger shock, hypoglycaemia and lack of consciousness.
FSA Head of Additives, Adam Hardgrave, stated: ‘While the signs of glycerol intoxication are often delicate, it is vital that folks are conscious of the dangers – notably at excessive ranges of consumption.
‘It is probably going that there’s under-reporting of glycerol intoxication, as mother and father could attribute nausea and complications to different components. We are grateful to these producers who’ve already taken steps to cut back ranges of glycerol, and to those that have already informed us they are going to be adopting our new tips.’
