Please don't give your children raw jelly cubes...choking hazard

[hunkermunker]

See here, poor thing

i have choked on these things - which we loaded w/alcohol as 'jelly shots', of course - as an adult.

oh fgs whats s toppid thign to do

Why on earth would you give a child raw jelly?

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Well I give my DD(8) raw jelly and I eat it myself - but I think I started giving her it at about 3 or 4

I think it is patently unsuitable for a toddler

It is very good for your nails and hair (but that might be an old wives tale)

and and cos I have let mine eat raw jelly before.

never ever would have thought that this could be a risk....am horrified. Just shows tho that we never know everything.

I was as shocked about the grapes risk too!

poor baby

i think basic first aid will have been good. dont put a child flat on their back to remove the opbstruction, putr them across your knees and pat on the back with some force. IIRC. i need a referesher course myself.

actually....mine have only had it recently and youngest is 4. and thats only because I used to aswell as a child.

Mine eat jelly cubes at times.

Poor little lad

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It is sad for that child's family.

However, all foodstuffs are a potential choking hazard whatever your age.

oops, was that the little girl in welwyn?

my DS1 choked on a piece of satsuma once and that was a cut up piece too. I guess that, yes, anything could be a cause of choking really in the right (tho tragic) circumstances

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i think it oops. reception age, happened at school? was local to me

Very sad accident but that's exactly what it is. A lump of raw jelly is no different to a similar-sized sweet and plenty of us have let our toddlers eat those. And how many of us still cut up grapes after the first baby?

How sad and how horrible for the parents watching your child die that way and not been able to help

I am always paranoid about things like that, fortunately mine are older now.