{"id":415804,"date":"2026-05-07T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:32:09","slug":"gold-coast-toddler-who-inhaled-cake-decorating-dust-doing-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415804\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast toddler who inhaled cake-decorating dust &#8216;doing better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Gold Coast toddler who was put in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/06\/gold-coast-toddler-in-coma-after-inhaling-cake-decorating-dust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">induced coma<\/a> after inhaling non-edible rose gold cake-decorating dust which turned into a toxic paste is showing signs of improvement, his relieved mum says.<\/p>\n<p>Professional baker Katie Robinson was baking a cake for a friend\u2019s child over the weekend when her son Dustin &#8220;Dusty&#8221; Wildman found an unopened container of rose gold dust powder.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;a matter of seconds&#8221;, Robinson said the 14-month-old had bit the lid off and inhaled its contents. The powder turned into a paste that immediately blocked his lungs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within minutes he was unresponsive, and it was just so terrifying to see,&#8221; she told 7News.<\/p>\n<p>Dusty became unresponsive and his mum called emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson yesterday told The Courier Mail she later learned the dust contained copper, which wouldn&#8217;t dissolve in blood.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Robinson said her son was &#8220;doing better&#8221; following the terrifying ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s made some progress, and the doctors are pretty happy with how he\u2019s looking,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s telling us that he\u2019s ready for his little tube to come out, which is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A GoFundMe page set up for the family had raised nearly AU$47,000 (NZ$57,000) as of 1.30pm today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gold Coast toddler who was put in an induced coma after inhaling non-edible rose gold cake-decorating dust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-415804","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\/415804","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=415804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}