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November 12, 2007 at 2:26 pm #254219
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Local Toddler Sickened By Aqua Dots
Chinese-Made Toy Recalled In U.S.
UPDATED: 1:03 pm CST November 9, 2007
twin lakes, wis. — a wisconsin family got the scare of their lives
and unresponsive.
“pretty much what they did … they sold me poison in a box for my
ingesting pieces of a toy called aqua dots.
aqua dots recalled
experts say if you have Aqua Dots in your house, get rid of them.
The recall covers 4.2 million packages of Aqua Dots. The Chinese
of glue.
NBC5’s Rob Elgas told the exclusive story of a local victim, 13-month
transformed from a happy toddler to an unresponsive youngster. What
followed was panic, an airlift to a Milwaukee hospital and near
“She was limp in my arms,” the baby’s mother, Kelly Batcheller
said. “She wouldn’t hold up her head … her arms were limp …
were so many things running through my head. I’m like, should I not
have picked her up? Did she fall? Is her neck broken?”
“The ambulance came and she started throwing up Aqua Dots, you know,
a kid’s toy,” he said.
puking,” Kelly Batcheller said.
It all happened at the family’s Twin Lakes, Wis., home. It was before
hurting their toddler, Elgas said.
“I’m thinking, ‘A child’s toy just almost killed my little girl?'”
“In 15 minutes, she went from happy to, just, completely
unconscious,” his wife added.
Enterprises, are beads that can be arranged into designs and fused
when sprayed with water. The toy was pulled from shelves in North
that converts into a dangerous drug when eaten. Two children in the
U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the
Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested,
metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug, gamma hydroxy
available ingredients — can induce unconsciousness, seizures,
drowsiness, coma and death. Officials in Hong Kong are testing the
Elgas said that Riley’s vomiting may have saved her life.
“She’s got an angel watching over her, that’s for sure, ” her mother
Riley’s parents believe that she may have ingested more than 40
pellets from the Aqua Dots package. What’s more frightening, Elgas
and saw the toy on the store shelf.
She insisted that store staff remove them and said that only after a
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