British girl is critically ill after being accidentally given dishwashing liquid to drink during a family holiday in Cyprus
A two-year-old British girl is critically ill after being accidentally given dishwashing liquid to drink during a family holiday in Cyprus. Annabel Rhodes was rushed to hospital on Saturday afternoon after a hotel barman in Limassol, on the south coast of the island, diluted her orange juice with fluid from a clear bottle, thinking it was water.
Her father, Mark Rhodes, 55, also needed first-aid treatment for tasting the potentially lethal drink when his daughter started crying in agony. The youngster is breathing through a respirator in a critical but stable condition, staff at the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia said.
She suffered severe burns to her mouth, throat and upper respiratory organs, and could be permanently scarred, doctors said. The mistake occurred when Mr Rhodes ordered watered-down orange juice for his daughter from the 43-year-old barman at the Curium Palace hotel. “It appears the barman used a container which he thought contained water but was in fact dishwasher detergent,” a police spokesman said. “We are treating this as an accident as the person wasn’t to know there was a different liquid in the plastic water bottle,” she added.telegraph.co.uk
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