Child, 4, chokes on plastic found in pottle of yoghurt
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/84300461/child-4-chokes-on-plastic-found-in-pottle-of-yoghurt
A piece of plastic from a pottle of yoghurt became lodged in a toddler's throat causing the child to choke, but the manufacturer has refused to recall the product.
Melissa Farrell said she was "shaken to the core" after her four-year-old daughter Eden came to her in a distressed state with the plastic blocking her airway.
"It was the Friday just gone, I left her with her yoghurt for two minutes and she came in and said, 'Mummy, my mouth is sore'," said Farrell.
"I opened up her mouth and a piece of white plastic was nestled just by her tonsils. Eden said, 'It was in my yoghurt'."
The plastic, the size of a large thumbnail, had been in the bottom of a pottle of Yoplait's Seriously Smooth yoghurt. It became lodged in the child's throat in a precarious position, and it could not be manually removed.
Eden was rushed to Waitakere Hospital where a specialist from Starship Children's Hospital was called in to provide gas to relax her.
Her daughter was so distressed it took five people to hold her down so that the plastic could be removed, said Farrell. The ordeal lasted about seven hours.
"If it kept moving it would have blocked her [airway]. When they pulled it out the plastic was red with blood."