{"id":1157,"date":"2025-03-17T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:11:53","slug":"girl-4-ended-up-in-hospital-minutes-after-drinking-slushy-at-childrens-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/girl-4-ended-up-in-hospital-minutes-after-drinking-slushy-at-childrens-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 4, ended up in hospital minutes after drinking slushy at children\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marnie went pale and became unresponsive after drinking the slushy (Picture: Kennedy News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mum is calling for slushies to be banned for children under 12 after her daughter fell ill moments after drinking one. <\/p>\n

Marnie Moore, 4, was at a children\u2019s party when she suddenly went \u2018pale and unresponsive\u2019 after her mum Kim, 35, bought her a refullable slushy. <\/p>\n

Marnie was taken to Burnley<\/a> General Teaching Hospital in Lancashire<\/a> where doctors discovered her blood sugar levels were dangerously low. <\/p>\n

The young girl was then transferred to Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, where she stayed for three days. <\/p>\n

Doctors told Kim that her daughter\u2019s medical episode was likely sparked by the slushie she had drunk at the party.<\/p>\n

Marnie, now nine, is believed to have suffered from glycerol toxicity.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a new study warned children younger than eight shouldn\u2019t be given slush-ice drinks containing the sweetener glycerol after researchers tracked the cases of 21 kids who fell in after drinking them.<\/p>\n

Kim has said she wants the recommended age for slushies should be 12 after Marnie\u2019s experience with the \u2018poison drink\u2019. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s believed Marnie, now nine years old, suffered glycerol toxicity (Picture: Kennedy News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018We ended up buying two one-litre refillable cups and they were going off playing, eating, getting drinks and coming back but\u00a0Marnie\u00a0didn\u2019t drink the full cup, probably only half,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Then 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 realised she wasn\u2019t waking up and was unconscious. She\u2019d gone really pale. <\/p>\n

\u2018She wasn\u2019t rousing at all and I think it was mum\u2019s instinct that I knew something wasn\u2019t right. She was floppy and completely unconscious. I was shaking her trying to wake her up and there was nothing.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The sugary drinks are popular during the summer (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Scientists have warned children younger than eight should not be given slush-ice\u00a0drinks<\/a>\u00a0containing the sweetener glycerol.<\/p>\n

Slush drinks in the UK typically contain glycerol, giving them their texture by stopping the liquid from freezing solid.<\/p>\n

The ingredient is already not recommended for under-fours in Britain, but academics have called for that number to rise.<\/p>\n

Published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, researchers tracked the cases of 21 kids in the UK and Ireland who fell ill after drinking a slushy.<\/p>\n

These medics have now warned slushies containing glycerol \u2018may cause a clinical syndrome of glycerol intoxication in young children\u2019.<\/p>\n

They added: \u2018Clinicians and parents should be alert to the phenomenon, and public health bodies should ensure clear messaging regarding the fact that younger children, especially those under eight years of age, should avoid slush ice drinks containing glycerol.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

After Marnie was diagnosed in A&E, she woke up and screamed in \u2018agony\u2019, throwing up and crying about her head hurting.<\/p>\n

\u2018Looking back, she had every single symptom of glycerol toxicity. We got transferred to another hospital and they had no idea what had caused it,\u2019 Kim added. \u2018We started looking into the slushy because that was the only thing differently she\u2019d had that day.<\/p>\n

\u2018Doctors couldn\u2019t 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kim has now warned of other places which promoted free slushies \u2013 but says they\u2019re \u2018promoting poison\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t think these slushies should be allowed at all. I personally wouldn\u2019t allow my child to drink one at all. It\u2019s not a risk I\u2019m willing to take.\u2019<\/p>\n

Last year, another mum called for a ban on slushies after her son started fitting after drinking one. Angus Anderson, three, ended up in hospital after he collapsed in front of his mum Victoria while out shopping.<\/p>\n

She said he went limp and stone cold around half an hour after drinking the raspberry-flavoured drink in\u00a0Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.<\/a><\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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