The mother of a child believed to have died after ingesting a toilet cleaner capsule has issued a warning to parents. Two-year-old Arietta-Grace Barnett was rushed to the hospital in June last year after she began vomiting bright pink fluid. She was released four days later after her temperature dropped and her illness subsided.
But a week later, she started bleeding and died in the hospital. An investigation ruled that the death in July 2019 was accidental, and a surgeon said the detergent may have caused fatal injuries. The little girl was described as ‘very funny’ and ‘really cheeky’ by her devastated family, who called their loss ‘catastrophic’.
According to the Metro, Lucy Cook, from Sarisbury Green, Hampshire, has called on other mums and dads to ‘pause’ before buying certain cleaning products and consider the dangers. She said: ‘While we welcome the further investigations the coroner is doing into the toilet cleaner product, we would urge parents to think very carefully before buying these and products similar to them.
‘While we understand the link between them and Arietta-Grace’s death is yet to be definitively proven, we feel the evidence currently available is enough to give parents pause before buying these types of products. ‘If your child does manage to get hold of a product such as this to make the hospital staff aware of Arietta-Grace so they are less likely to confuse any symptoms your child may present with as an infection as happened in Arietta-Grace’s case.’
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