(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - A four-month-old baby was admitted to
the intensive care unit of the Giovanni XXIII paediatric
hospital in Bari Tuesday following an ethyl coma allegedly
caused by drinking wine, after an error in the preparation of a
baby bottle when the alcoholic substance was mistakenly used to
dilute powdered milk.
It was the baby's mother who, after realising the mistake,
accompanied him to the emergency room of the Perrino Hospital in
Brindisi, where the baby was given urgent treatment, including a
gastric lavage, and then intubated and transferred to Bari.
(ANSA).