Chinese Grandmother Trying to ‘Cure’ Baby Accidentally Feeds Her Heroin Formula

The “medicine” was made by stewing the oil out of poppy seeds.
Chinese Grandmother Trying to ‘Cure’ Baby Accidentally Feeds Her Heroin Formula
A woman looks after her baby granddaughter at a children's hospital in Beijing on September 23, 2008. PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images
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In the morning of Feb. 23, a baby girl who had fallen into a coma was rushed to the emergency room of the Affiliated Children’s Hospital of Soochow University. She was brought in by her grandmother and responsible parent, a middle-aged woman surnamed Huang.

Doctors were surprised to discover that the cause of the coma was heroin consumption and reported the case to the police, according to the Yangtse Evening Post.

Police at the Hudong Police Station of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, investigated the matter and found that Ms. Huang had fed her granddaughter poppy seed oil in an attempt to relieve her illness.

Juliet Song
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Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.