A toddler on the Gold Coast is in an induced coma after inhaling cake-decorating dust which turned into a toxic paste.<\/p>\n
Professional baker Rochelle Robinson was baking a cake over the weekend when her son Dustin found gold dust powder.<\/p>\n
The 14-month-old inhaled the powder, which turned into a paste that immediately blocked his lungs, a GoFundMe page set up for the family read.<\/p>\n
Dusty became unresponsive and his mum called emergency services. <\/p>\n
Robinson told The Courier Mail she later learned the dust contained copper, which wouldn’t dissolve in blood.<\/p>\n
“[The powder] gathered in his lungs,” she told The Courier Mail. <\/p>\n
“Now we have to wait to make sure his kidneys and liver are OK.”<\/p>\n
The toddler had since undergone surgery to clear his lungs at Queensland Children’s Hospital, where he remained in an induced coma. <\/p>\n
He was due for another round of surgery shortly.<\/p>\n
The GoFundMe page had raised more than AU$29,000 (NZ$35,400) by 2pm today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A toddler on the Gold Coast is in an induced coma after inhaling cake-decorating dust which turned into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-414003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}