Children under the age of eight should avoid consuming slush ice drinks containing the sweetening agent glycerol, researchers suggest. It comes as a study highlighted a number of youngsters ...

A new study has suggested the brightly coloured icy drinks can cause "glycerol intoxication syndrome" in youngsters, which ...

Children under eight should not drink slushy ice drinks containing glycerol, researchers have warned after a string of hospitalizations in the UK and Ireland. The brightly colored drinks marketed ...

They added: "Clinicians and parents should be alert to the phenomenon, and public health bodies should ensure clear messaging regarding the fact that younger children, especially those under eight ...

and public health bodies should ensure clear messaging regarding the fact that younger children, especially those under eight years of age, should avoid slush ice drinks containing glycerol.” ...

Slush ice drinks containing glycerol, popularly called slushies, are harmful to children under eight years of age, doctors warn in a new study after a string of hospitalisations in the US and the UK.

Beth Green previously described how her son Albie started having hallucinations after drinking a slushie (Picture: Kennedy News and Media) Children under eight could soon be put on a slushy ban ...

Children under the age of eight should avoid consuming slush ice drinks containing the sweetening agent glycerol, researchers suggest. It comes as a study highlighted a number of youngsters becoming ...

Children should completely avoid "slushy" ice drinks containing glycerol, which can make them very ill, until they are at least eight years old ... advice says under-fives should avoid the ...