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

[hunkermunker]

See here, poor thing

My mum never gave me raw jelly cubes for this reason. I think something like this happened years ago as well.

I don't give raw jelly not because of choking but more becuase it must be sickly sweet.

but raw jelly?

tbh, the last time i had jelly was at uni, as 'jelly shots'

these days, the idea of jelly truly disgusts me b/c it's melted pork product.

it is sold ready prepared here? isn't it a powder that you have to mix w/water?

it's not a powder then, malory? sold in a sachet?

oh, i see. i'm going to have to go and view this for myself.

this is most intriguing.

where is it kept? wuold it be in a baking aisle at a supermarket?

oooo. do you think they'd get angry if i took some out and squeezed it a bit?

i just want to see what it's really like.

i just want to squish it. or maybe drop it on the floor and watch it wobble a bit.

Expat, it is a bit firmer than that! And it comes in a block, a bit like chocolate.

Australian jelly comes in little granule form though.

I think A&E staff say that grapes are the prime culprits for choking

American jelly is also in granule form.

I'm much intrigued now! I want to see this squishy squeezy squashy stuff in a box.

Grapes I always cut in half for DD1, usually it's half for you, and half for me

there you go expat

Oooo, cool! What a fun plaything!

As for eating it raw, eeewwwww.

can't say i'd give that to a toddler, though.

Well, there you have it - the MN repsonese to an accidental death of a child: fgs what a stupid theing to do, and some comments about the nature of jelly as a food for children.

It's the same as jelly tots, any jelly sweets, cake decorations or haribo. Yes, outside the preferred diet of many (vociferous) MN-ers, but as a basis for a reaction to the death of a child?

MN is making me a bit sick, at the moment.

It is a very very typical MN thread Blu.

A child has died because of an accident. The parent's first aid skills, how many of us eat melted pigs or whatever isn't the point.

Oh, and fwiw - people, children especially can choke on anything!

I've heard of nuts, apples, a burst balloon, grapes etc. and just above satsuma segments and a kernel of sweetcorn above... it can happen with many many common products.

How very very sad.

Blu - I happen to think it was a stupid "treat" to give a toddler too. Sad as it is - I think the more people that come along and realise this by reading this thread the better, quite frankly.

I also think that ALL parents should do a first aid - particularly baby first aid course. Rescuss for a baby is quite different to that of an adult.

You would never try adn put a baby on its back to remove an obstruction with your fingers. You lay them across your knees and give them a hard wack on the centre of their back with the heel of your hand - several times.

If THAT doesnt work then you put them on their front - and poke with two fingers in their solar plexus area very very sharply to dislodge the obstruction - if that doesnt work you try to do Mouth to mouth in the hope that you can get some air in (assuming baby/toddler has lost consciousness).

I might start a thread actually......

Until the case recently, not many people realised / knew that grapes were a hazard.

No-one said 'oh fgs what a stupid thing to do' on the thread about that.

I completely agree that spreading the word about foodstuffs that could choke is a good thing, though, and although i was given cubes of jelly all the time as a child, i would not have given it to DS as such a young child (and don't now), and when i read the headline my first thuoght was 'but surely jelly would dissolve in the throat enough to be dislodged'. So yes, a useful thing to know.

But don't like the condemnation of the bereaved.