Posted on 06/06/2015 8:13:05 AM PDT by PROCON
A child in Kentucky died after he swallowed and choked on cinnamon powder on June 3.
The boy's mother, Brianna Radar, told reporters how her 4-year-old son, Matthew, had been climbing around their family’s kitchen and was able to get hold of some cinnamon powder before eating it and breathing it in.
“He started choking,” the mother said. “It was like he was having a seizure and just collapsed.”
The 4-year-old was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead after an hour and a half.
According to the coroner, he had choked on the cinnamon when he inhaled it.
This death comes at the heels of a popular online trend called the "cinnamon challenge” where participants film themselves eating spoonfuls of the powder, resulting in many of them choking.
According to the LA Times, poison control centers all over the country took hundreds of calls regarding the cinnamon challenge in the first few months of 2012.
Radar hopes her son’s death serves as a warning to people about the dangers of cinnamon.
“To let people know cinnamon can kill,” she said. “All these kids do the cinnamon challenge. They don’t think about the fact it can hurt them.”
Her son’s organs have been donated.
Are there popular social media stunts that dare users to swallow a spoonful of ground comet or dishwashing powder in under 60 seconds without drinking anything ? If so, I hope a big warning are made of those like this mother is trying to do.
I remember posts last year with idiots dowsing themselves with lighter fluid then then setting themselves ablaze.
I wonder how many people are going to be harmed using funnels after removing the new "safe" spouts versus how many with the old spouts. I have one gas can with the new spout and never got it to work right.
“and breathing it in”
It was not the “eating” it that killed him.
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Looks like dead mice too.
Hidden mickys
More like Stupid Kills.
It sounds like it worked exactly as the government intended.
Cinnamon is a controlled substance in Europe. The elites heavily restrict the cinnamon roll. The people are permitted a certain amount of cinnamon per danish. It is to protect people from themselves:
EU officials trying to ban cinnamon rolls
No, that is not necessarily so. It’s very easy to choke on cinnamon powder, actually, because it is an irritant that makes the air passages close off almost immediately. I was baking something once and dropped the powdered cinnamon, making a little cloud of powdered cinnamon come out of the can. I bent down to pick up the can and inhaled some of the cinnamon dust as I did so, and I thought I was going to meet my fate right there in the kitchen.
Your throat and air passages close up right away. I knew what had happened and I told my self to be calm and not suck it further in, but a child is not going to know that.
Yep, they be some smart youngun' they is.
You had me at “fire suppression.”
And doesn’t it contribute to climate change?
In the frozen state it does. The climate goes from warm to cold.
One type of cinnamon is controlled. What the Europeans control is cassia cinnamon, not true cinnamon. The two are cousins but have at least one significant difference. Cassia can contain high levels of the blood thinner coumarin which I suppose could pose a problem if you are taking a blood thinning medicine.
Cassia is the most common cinnamon in use in the United States but never was in Europe. Cassia has a stronger flavor than true cinnamon.
“This has nothing to do with allergy. You try eating a small amount like an 1/8 tsp full of cinnamon and see what happens”
You are absolutely correct, and please - anyone reading this, please don’t try eating ground/powdered cinnamon.
While in college 9 years ago, our daughter, at the urging of her then boyfriend and now husband, tried swallowing a teaspoon of cinnamon on a dare. She learned a lot from this experience, most of all not to do things on a dare, especially if they seem really stupid (by the way, she is actually pretty smart and her husband is now a dentist - so intelligent people can do really stupid things when young).
She ended up in the hospital after choking on it very badly - taken to the emergency room and had trouble breathing for several days.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Psst! Hey you. Two keys of cinnamon for 30 large? Nickel bags, too.
Indeed, so does salt can kill. Cinamon is a coagulent and dehydrates. Face palm. But such is our Idiocracy making the nanny government all the more possible.
Does cinnamon have Electrolytes?
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