1-year-old girl dies after accidentally swallowing onion

Bengaluru, Oct 24: In a tragic incident, a farmer couple in Ballari district lost their only child after she accidentally swallowed an onion.

1-year-old Nityashree was playing in the veranda. Her mother was talking to a neighbour but failed to notice that Nityashree slowly approached the onions that were scattered in the veranda for drying.

The baby girl took one of the large sized onions and swallowed it. The onion got stuck in her respiratory tract and she was unable to breathe and hence fell unconscious.

Since Nityashree did not cry loudly, her mother also failed to notice only to see after a while that the baby was unconscious. The baby was taken to the primary health centre (PHC) almost 45 minutes later.

Dr Jayasheel, the doctor who was at the PHC told BM, "A lot of time was wasted initially because she was not brought immediately to the hospital. As soon as she came, we checked on her but unfortunately she was brought dead.

Paediatricians in the city say that there has been an increase in the case of childhood injuries in the recent past because of which a lot of them end up in the ICUs, most of which is caused by a lack of supervision by the parents.