The sheath of a toddler who became intoxicated after getting an ecstasy pill stick in her olfactory organ has been detailed by a medical team in a new report .

The 2 - twelvemonth - previous had reach into a corner above the fridge where her mother storedecstasypills , the authors explain . unluckily , the girl engage one of the pills and put in it up her nozzle . The mother was able to absent part of the pill before call the emergency services .

The girl make it at the pediatric emergency department at the Children ’s Hospital in Toulouse , France , where she exhibit sign of the zodiac of toxic condition , including a state of ferment , eminent blood pressure , a fast mettle pace , and dilated pupils . She was moved to intensive care , where drug tests were negative for other illegal substance , but prescribed for 3,4 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ( MDMA ) .

The team gave the girl fluid through an IV drip and monitored her as her vitals returned to normal the next morning . No medication was postulate , and she made a full recovery .

" Non - designed knifelike intoxication with narcotics may be the consequence of severe parental neglect . This must lead to a collegial conclusion to submit a juridic report need for the indication of child protection measures , " the team publish in the case report .

After diagnose " biography - peril penetrative intoxication by a narcotic product " the squad submitted a report , as required by Gallic child protection natural law . The judge of the local jejune court placed the girl under the legal safekeeping of her grandmother .

The squad noted in their discourse that ecstasy intoxication should be deliberate in untested children with seizures .

" pinched insertion of an ecstasy oral contraceptive in a young nestling can lead to an intoxication standardised to that observed with an unwritten route and for the same amount , " they concluded .   " Such intoxication should be evoked when faced with a toddler who has febrile seizures , especially if agitated , and after prevail out a potential meningocerebral contagion . "

The typesetter’s case study was release inArchives de Pédiatrie .