Breast pump asthma risk
Messaging app helps rescuers locate crashed mum and girl
A MUM trapped in a crashed car at night with her seven-year-old daughter was saved thanks to Snapchat.
Gemma Fairweather, 38, and Martha could not get out as the car doors were jammed after veering off a country lane, ploughing through bushes and plunging down an embankment, hiding Citroen C3 20ft from the road.
Gemma called 999 but had no idea of her location. Her boyfriend’s son told her how to share it via messaging app Snapchat’s GPS tool and passed it to rescuers.
Teacher Gemma said: “We were in total darkness as the headlights had smashed. It was very worrying because the we could hear running water and I could tell the car was right next to it. We could hear vehicles but nobody was stopping, they did not know where we were.
“The emergency services were outstanding.” Gemma was driving home to Wymondham, Norfolk, on Sunday night when she crashed at Blundeston, Suffolk. She and Martha suffered only Martha with mum Gemma and crash site
minor bruises. Suffolk Police said they were called out at around 10.15pm.
A spokesman added: “Officers were dispatched. Five minutes later we got a message, giving clarification on the location. The fire service was at the scene when we arrived at around 10.30pm.” USING breast pumps may give babies the “wrong” kind of bacteria and increase childhood asthma risk, a study suggests.
Experts found milk from the devices had a higher level of harmful bugs than “directly fed” breast milk.
A Canadian study of 393 mums found milk in breast pumps had higher levels of infectious bacteria.
Dr Shirin Moossavi, of Manitoba University, said: “This may explain why infants fed pumped milk have raised asthma risk.”