2-Year-Old Girl Gets High After Inserting Ecstasy Pill in Her Nose From Mom’s Drugs Stash [Study]

After unsuspectingly shoving an ecstasy pill into her nose, a French toddler was in a life-threatening situation. Fortunately, she survived.

Toddler Gets Ecstasy Pill Stuck in Her Nose

A 2-year-old girl got high after inserting an ecstasy pill up her nose. She rummaged through her mom's drug stash, found the pill, and inserted it into her nose, New York Post reported.

The mother was horrified after realizing what had happened to her child. She tried to remove the pill, and only a portion of it came out.

The mom called the emergency services for help, and the child was rushed to the hospital. The medics said the child's condition was life-threatening, Daily Mail added.

The child was taken to Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Toulouse. She was reportedly restless and agitated. They also found red residue on her nose.

Her heart rate was 148 beats per minute; she had high blood pressure, rapid and shallow breathing, and dilated pupils.

She was moved to the pediatric intensive care unit. Her blood pressure started to decrease normally, and she was moved to a general pediatric ward.

She was hydrated with an IV drip, and her pupil started to constrict. Her blood pressure was fully stabilized the following day, and the child was discharged from the hospital.

However, the mother was deemed unfit to care for the little girl. By French law for child protection, the girl was put under the care of her paternal grandmother.

The ecstasy intoxication incident was mentioned in the study published in the journal Archives de Pédiatrie. The researchers noted that they reported the intoxication via an unusual route.

Sadly, the child's case is just one of several involving "non-intentional acute intoxication with narcotics" in toddlers, with earlier incidences occurring after children had consumed medication orally.

In another scarier infantile overdose, a 10-month-old son of a California tech executive overdosed in 2022 after swallowing fentanyl he found while crawling around a playground in San Francisco. Paramedics gave the youngster a dose of the anti-opioid drug Narcan that saved his life and brought him back from the edge of death.

According to the authors, such situations "may be the result of severe parental neglect."

What Is Ecstasy?

According to NIH, ecstasy, also called 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) or Molly, is a synthetic substance that modifies perception (consciousness of surroundings, including things and situations) and mood.

It produces emotions of enhanced energy, pleasure, emotional warmth, and skewed sensory and time perception, and its molecular composition puts it in the same chemical family as hallucinogens and stimulants.

They are popular in nightclubs and dance parties. However, it has affected a broader range of people.

Most MDMA users take it as a pill or tablet. However, some inhale the powder or ingest it as a liquid. The apparently "pure" crystalline powder form of MDMA, which is typically supplied in capsules, is frequently referred to as "Molly" (slang for "molecular"). However, when consumers buy powder or capsules marketed as Molly, they often end up with other substances, such as synthetic cathinone.

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