{"id":407157,"date":"2026-02-04T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407157\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:23","slug":"girl-seven-is-hospitalized-for-days-after-overdosing-on-moms-glp-1-injections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407157\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, seven, is hospitalized for days after overdosing on mom’s GLP-1 injections"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little girl in Indiana<\/a> was hospitalized after overdosing on her mom’s GLP-1 weight loss<\/a> drugs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessa Milender, now eight years old, was found on the floor ‘lifeless’ in December 2024 after injecting herself with her mom’s GLP-1 medication.<\/p>\n

‘I thought it was stomach medicine,’ Jessica told WHAS-11.<\/a> ‘My mom takes it and I thought it helped her with her stomachaches.’<\/p>\n

Jessa’s mom, Melissa, discovered her daughter, who had administered herself with 60 percent of the GLP-1 injector pen, and called poison control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The seven-year-old had been vomiting almost every hour and experienced diarrhea, constipation and abdominal pain, medical records obtained by the outlet showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessa was taken to the emergency room with sunken eyes and ashy skin where she was hooked up to an IV.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The ER staff didn’t know what to do,’ she told CBS 8<\/a>. ‘They just called Poison Control, and Poison Control told them the same thing they told me. They didn’t know how to respond.’<\/p>\n

But she was discharged after her symptoms subsided, but when she got home she began vomiting again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jessa Milender, now eight years old, was found on the floor ‘lifeless’ in December 2024 after injecting herself with her mom’s GLP-1 medication<\/p>\n

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Jessa said she thought the medicine was for stomachaches and injected herself without telling anyone<\/p>\n

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Jessa’s mom, Melissa, discovered her daughter, who had administered herself with 60 percent of the GLP-1 injector pen, and called poison control<\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t think we were prepared for how bad it was gonna get,’ Melissa told WHAS-11. ‘I should have never let them discharge her.’<\/p>\n

Jessa became so weak that her mom had to carry her to the bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She was thirsty. That’s the only thing that she wanted to do was drink water, but then she would throw it up,’ Melissa continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The young girl returned to hospital where she then stopped urinating and doctors expressed concern for Jessa’s kidneys, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She didn\u2019t eat for six days straight,’ Melissa said, describing the incident as ‘the worst week of our lives.’<\/p>\n

‘She’s my little girl,’ she added. ‘So that was rough.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Melissa told CBS 8 that she felt like Jessa was dying and added: ‘That’s how she looked. She had lost significant weight… her cheeks were sunken in, her eyes were sunken in.’<\/p>\n

‘She couldn’t walk from exhaustion and severe pain. She wouldn’t even allow them to touch her stomach. She’d scream out in pain in her sleep. It was awful. It’s a miracle that she didn’t have long-term effects.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Join the debate<\/p>\n

Should weight loss medications be kept under lock and key in homes with young children?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Melissa now keeps the medication in a locked box in the fridge and hopes sharing her daughter’s story will help other parents protect their children<\/p>\n

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The seven-year-old had been vomiting almost every hour and experienced diarrhea, constipation and abdominal pain and appeared ashy with sunken eyes<\/p>\n

Now, Melissa keeps her medication locked in a box but said she believes it could have been a lot worse.<\/p>\n

‘I got it the day she overdosed on it,’ she told WHAS-11. ‘It’s been in my fridge ever since.’<\/p>\n

‘Once you’ve injected too much, there’s no “Whoops, let me take this to counteract it,”‘ she continued. ‘Like no, now you’re dealing with whatever the consequences are of that.’<\/p>\n

Melissa hopes in sharing her story that other parents can help protect their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I felt like no one had the answer on how to help her. I should have told her, “Don’t ever touch this.” It was just such an unprecedented event that I didn’t think to plan for, prepare for,’ she told CBS 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little girl in Indiana was hospitalized after overdosing on her mom’s GLP-1 weight loss drugs.\u00a0\u00a0 Jessa Milender,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97,59,102,775,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-407157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}