Nine Year Old Dies After Her Mother Applies Sniper on her Hair to Kill Lice

 A nine-year-old girl has died after her mother applied a pesticide, Sniper, on her hair to kill lice.

Dr Gloria Nwosu, a paediatrician at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital said the woman heeded the advice of her hairdresser and applied the pesticide on the hair of two of her daughters, aged nine and four, respectively.

She noted that while the nine-year-old convulsed for hours before giving up the ghost, doctors at the teaching hospital saved the four-year-old.

“Their mother felt that the hairdresser would know what to do since it has to do with lice. We did everything we could to bring the child back to normal, but it was all abortive.

“She (the deceased) was very sick. The second child slumped in our presence and we immediately admitted her and gave her an antidote. So, the question now is how many of these children may have gone through this?” Nwosu said.

Furthermore the doctor  explained that the insecticide damaged the victim’s brain, because she convulsed for over two hours. Oxygen saturation remained low and  never went back to normal.The child kept pouring out saliva and it never went off until she passed on.They also had high blood pressure. 

Culled from Punch Newspaper