A 30-month-old Jerusalem girl from the predominantly haredi Beis Yisrael neighborhood passed away yesterday after ingesting nicotine drops from an electronic cigarette in her family’s Yosef Karo Street home.
Haredi Toddler Dies From Nicotine Poisoning
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A 30-month-old Jerusalem girl from the predominantly haredi Beis Yisrael neighborhood passed away yesterday after ingesting nicotine drops from an electronic cigarette in her family’s Yosef Karo Street home, Yeshiva World reported.
Ichud Hatzalah EMTs reported that they found the girl in an altered mental state, and her condition rapidly deteriorated.
The girl lost consciousness, and when Magen David Adom EMT arrived at the scene to transport the girl, her condition was already listed as extremely serious.
She was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center but doctors decided to move her to an intensive care unit in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
Despite the efforts by Hadassah’s medical team, the little girl passed away yesterday evening.
The parents are both young haredim.
The little girls was their first child.