Mum issues urgent warning to other parents after her daughter narrowly avoids choking on 40p Tesco fruit drink
A MUM has issued an urgent warning to other parents after her two-year-old daughter narrowly avoided a choking disaster while drinking a 40p Tesco fruit drink.
Molly explained that her two-year-old loves the Fruit Splash drinks – a dupe of the popular Robinsons Fruit Shoots – from the supermarket, especially when it’s warm outside.
However, when her daughter was drinking one of the squashes, a small plastic ring that had been in the lid fell out.
Luckily, the bottle was in a position where the ring fell straight out.
But it could have been disastrous if her little girl had accidentally swallowed the piece of plastic.
So Molly decided to take to TikTok to warn other parents about the choking hazard.
“These are normally quite tight and I never worry about them,” she said, holding the lid.
“But because that happened, when I give her one of these, I make sure that I pull this out now because it’s just too much of a risk.”
While the plastic ring has a huge hole in it, Molly pointed out that if it went down the wrong way, it could get “completely stuck“.
“So if you get these fruit drinks from Tesco, just be careful that when you buy them or you give them to your child, that the ring is actually stuck in – or just pull it out.
“It’s better to be safe than sorry,” she concluded.
The comments section was quickly filled with grateful parents thanking Molly for sharing the warning.
“Thank you for sharing this!” one wrote.
“I stopped someone in the supermarket like 2 weeks ago just to tell them this,” another added.
“They also have them in the Sainsbury’s ones.
“I flick them out every time I get them now!”
“Thanks for sharing this. My kids have these all the time,” a third admitted.
“Oh no! I have these in the fridge right now!” someone else gasped.
What to do if someone is choking
Mild choking
If the airway is only partly blocked, the person will usually be able to speak, cry, cough or breathe, and may be able to clear the blockage themselves.
In adults:
- Encourage them to keep coughing
- Ask them to try to spit out the object
- Don’t put your fingers in their mouth
- If coughing doesn’t work, start back blows
In children:
- If you can see the object, try to remove it (but don’t poke blindly)
- Encouraging coughing
- Shout for help if coughing isn’t effective or the child is silent
- Use back blows if the child is still conscious but not coughing
Severe choking
In adults:
Where choking is severe, the person won’t be able to speak, cry, cough or breathe.
Without help, they’ll eventually become unconscious, so you should carry out back blows.
In children:
Back blows can be carried out on children under one year.
If this doesn’t work, chest thrusts can be started on kids up to 12 months old, and abdominal thrusts on those over one year.
Call 999 if the blockage doesn’t come out after trying back blows and either chest or abdominal thrusts.
Keep trying this cycle until help arrives.
Even if the object has come out, get medical help. Part of the object might have been left behind, or the patient might have been hurt by the procedure.
Source: NHS
“Definitely going to cut the lid off before he drinks them. Thank you for raising awareness.”
“Oh I never would’ve thought of that,” another said.
“Thank you!!! Why are they designed like that!?”
“Thank you, my children drink them always,” someone else wrote.
“I will be more careful.”
“This could literally save a life,” another added.
The bottles from Tesco do actually have a health warning on them, which reads: “Warning: Due to size and shape may present a choking hazard for small children.
“Always supervise when eating.”