Children under 8 years of age should not drink slush with glycerol, pediatricians warned.
The doctor concluded that public health advice on their safety may be needed after reviewing 21 children’s medical notes immediately after drinking one of the ice drinks.
Their discovery has been published In the childhood disease archive journal. In each case, they showed that after the child drinking slush, the symptom cluster was suddenly bad.
Children have been sick as a result of this study as glycerol addiction syndrome, which caused symptoms such as reducing consciousness and hypoglycemia.
Glycerol is a naturally generated alcohol and sugar replacement, which helps the slush to keep the solid in texture so that the solid does not freeze.
In the UK, slush containing glycerol is not recommended for children under 4 years of age. The Review Team of the University College Dublin, led by Ellen Crushell, a consultant pediatrician, urged to revise health advice.
All cases except one of the examples occurred between 2018 and 2024, with almost seven children’s age.
After arriving in the emergency room, all of them were diagnosed with hypoglycemia or hypoglycemia. The review team suggested drinking a slush with glycerol.
Symptoms include reduced consciousness, hypoglycemia, lactic acid, and occurs when producing lactic acid, low -knife, hyperlipidemia, or low potassium.
They added: “Clinic and parents should pay attention to the phenomenon, and public health institutions must guarantee a clear message about the fact that young children, especially children under 8, should avoid ice drinks containing glycerol.”
FOOD Standards Agency (FSA) advises children under four consumed slushed ice drinks containing glycerol. In addition, consumption is not recommended to be limited to one slush a day for children between 5 and 10 years of age.
According to the review, the time between drinking slush and the illness was known to 15 children, and 14 people became bad within 14 hours.
Studies have found that all 21 children have recovered quickly and were discharged with advice not to drink slush.
Twenty of these groups followed this advice and no more episodes of hypoglycemia. But when a child had another slush when he was seven, he had symptoms in an hour.
The researchers said: “Slush ice drink glycerol concentration is not good for transparency. Therefore, it is not easy to estimate a safe dose.
“Eating speed and dose can also be a factor with other aspects, such as whether the drink is consumed in a meal or in fasting or after high intensity exercise.”
“There is no advantage of nutrition or health of this drink,” they added. “It is not recommended as part of a balanced diet.
“Recommendations for safe consumption should be added to safety.”
“We can easily interpret the safe population recommendation at the individual parent level, and the recommendations should be based on weight, not age, given the volatility of the age cohort of weight.
“Alternatively, the recommended age threshold may be higher (8 years) to ensure that the normal population changes are given to prevent the capacity of weight.”
