Slush ice drinks made with glycerol have been found to make children sick. Doctors and medical scientists in Ireland and the UK investigated following reported sickness connected with the icy refreshments.
Their research, ‘Glycerol intoxication syndrome in young children, following the consumption of slush ice drinks,’ published in the British Medical Journal’s Archives of Disease in Childhood, has caused health authorities to issue guidance for parents and caregivers around childrens’ consumption of slush ice drinks with glycerol. Manufacturers sometimes use glycerol instead of high sugar content to keep the slushy texture of slush ice drinks. These drinks are particularly marketed at children.
Professor Crushell said: “We found that glycerol in slush drinks can cause ‘glycerol intoxication syndrome’ in young children. The research is significant because this illness has only rarely been described before in the medical literature and never in association with slush ice drinks.”
View: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2025/02/10/archdischild-2024-328109
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