2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Multiple daycare centers in New Zealand changed their eating standards after a boy choked on a piece of fruit at his school and was permanently paralyzed, local media reported. Neihana Renata was 22 months old in May 2016 when a piece of apple stuck in her throat while eating lunch at her daycare, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Although the nursery teachers tried to remove the fruit and resuscitated him with mouth-to-mouth breathing, the boy had cardiac arrest for about 30 minutes. Neihana spent two weeks in intensive care and two months in hospital. Because her brain was without oxygen for so long, the boy who "loved to run and play outside and was a great dancer" was left with a severe motor disability. The little one cannot speak, walk or move alone, this newspaper reported.
It is also vulnerable to chest infections and requires constant supervision. His mother, who is a doctor, stopped working to attend to him. The company that owns the daycare where the incident occurred changed its dietary guidelines, avoiding giving hard fruits and vegetables to children under the age of three unless they are cooked and soft, without peel and pureed. More than 100 nurseries of this company in the country have adopted these new regulations to avoid other similar cases.
According to a study, candy is a common cause of suffocation and visits to emergency rooms. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), airway obstruction is the number one cause of accidental death in children younger than 1 year and the fourth most dangerous for children between the ages of 1 to 9 years (claiming more lives than younger than those than car accidents, drowning in water, or getting burned.)
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