2023-11-10 04:49:00
Six-year-old boy in hospital with internal injuries. For the ministry the cause is a supplement. Removed from trade
Il Ministry of Health he intervened urgently and has taken off the market and supplement called Alka Water. The decision was made after the hospitalization of a six year old boy in Campania, arrived at the emergency room in code red con burns – we read in La Repubblica – to the throat and stomach. Previously he had ingested the food supplement Alka Water, produced by Vivere Alcalino. The ASL of Brindisi, the company’s headquarters, and the NAS of the Carabinieri of Taranto have trade blocked and imposed the recall of the packages in circulation throughout Italy. The story begins in mid-October, when the child ends up in hospital. “Injuries to the esophagus and stomachset treatment by corrosive caustics,” the medical record says.
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The result of the analyzes – continues La Repubblica – ends up at the Poison Control Center in Pavia and according to the Directorate General for Food Safety of the Ministry, “the product has a high potassium hydroxide content, such that the ingestion of 5 drops, defined as the recommended dose, causes a caustic effect. Specifically, the solution contained in the bottle has a pH of around 14a condition that determines a certain health risk“. The dosage of the product says that it must always be used in dilution. It is suggested to dissolve five drops in a liter of water. But according to the ministry the warnings are not clear enough. A danger pictogram is also missing. Beyond that, dietary supplements “are meant to be taken in small unit quantities“. While Alka Water must be diluted. For this it is no longer on the market.
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