Wine in the bottle by mistake, 4-month-old baby in ethyl coma: hospitalized in intensive care in Bari. “He is improving slightly”

OfCinzia Semeraro

The alcoholic substance was used by the mother to dilute the powdered milk. After gastric lavage at Perrino in Brindisi he was urgently transported to the pediatric hospital in Bari

White wine instead of water to prepare powdered milk to the four month old baby. An error, it is the investigators’ hypothesis, committed by one mom Of Francavilla Fontana, in the province of Brindisi, which caused the child to end up in an alcohol-induced coma. Admitted to intensive care at the pediatric hospital in Bari, his condition is improving slightly. It was what made the woman suspicious the child’s rejection that after the first sips he would stop drinking and reject the bottle. At that point she would have realized that she had not mixed the powdered milk with the water. It would have been the one who made her mistake dark colour of the bottle in which the wine was contained. Immediately after realizing the mistake, the woman took the child to the emergency room of the Perrino hospital in Brindisi where, however, he arrived in an alcohol coma. Subjected to gastric lavage, he was intubated and urgently transferred to the Giovanni XXIII pediatric hospital in Bari where he was admitted to the intensive care unit.

The Prosecutor’s Office investigates

The Brindisi prosecutor’s office started an investigation but for the carabinieri of the Francavilla Fontana company it was a domestic accident. No other elements emerged from the military’s findings. The stress due to daily tasks, the need to quickly prepare the bottle and the dark bottle would have led the woman to make mistakes. It was the same child, refusing to continue drinking, who revealed that the liquid was not milk. A signal immediately perceived by the woman who realized in a few moments what the true contents of the bottle from which she had taken the liquid were, believing it to be water. The rush to the hospital was immediate, from the house to the Perrino emergency room. Here the little one was taken into care by doctors who with amazement ascertained the ethyl coma of a child of only four months. A clinical picture that alarmed the healthcare staff and which led to the child’s transfer to Bari where he underwent specific treatments. At the moment the prognosis is reserved but the doctors are confident because the child’s condition is improving. The news has also triggered many reactions on social media where many express understanding for “the sorrow” and “for what the family is going through in these hours”, hoping that “the little one can soon recover from this bad accident”.

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