Girl hurt by ‘Unicorn Milk’ vaping fluid

NINE-YEAR-OLD TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER DRINKING VAPING FLUID

A nine-year-old New Brunswick girl was taken to hospital after consuming ecigarette fluids from a brightly labelled “Unicorn Milk” bottle, her mother says.

Lea L’Hoir is calling on Ottawa to swiftly enact a ban on childfriendly names on such products.

The federal Liberals introduced a law last fall that would prohibit labels that appeal to children or which use fictional animals as an “endorsement,” and the law recently passed third reading before the Senate.

“I can’t wait to see it voted in at the federal level,” L’Hoir said in an interview.

L’Hoir says her daughter and several friends found the purple tube with a rainbow on it in a Fredericton playground on Monday.

She says the image of a pink and purple unicorn led them to believe it was candy and they ingested a few drops.

Her daughter was later taken to hospital suffering stomach pain, dizzy spells and soreness in her chest, before being released and sent home.

L’Hoir says she suffered anxiety and a sleepless night due to her child’s illness and wants assurances a new federal law will prohibit the childfriendly labels and odours.

The regulation before the Senate would also prohibit selling a vaping product that has “an appearance, shape or other sensory attribute or a function for which there are reasonable grounds to believe that it could make the product appealing to young persons.”