Girl, 15, left foaming out mouth after smoking 'spiked' cannabis she bought outside UK designer outlet
A 15-year-old schoolgirl was left hospitalised and 'foaming at the mouth' after smoking 'spiked' cannabis she purchased from a guy outside of a designer outlet in Cheshire.
According to mum, Ivana Kodeschova, Sophy Smolnicka had gone to smoke a joint with her mates in a forest in Ellesmere Port on 9 September after having been at the Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet.
However, just one minute into the smoke, something went horribly wrong, leaving Sophy on the ground and having a seizure.
Thankfully, her friends called 999 while Sophy was 'foaming at the mouth' and 'throwing up blood' so she could be rushed to the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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Soon, the ‘panicked’ mum arrived to the hospital room, where she says she was greeted to the sight of her year 11 daughter hooked up to machines.
Ivana said: "I was starting to panic and cry. When I got to the hospital, I saw my daughter being monitored for her heart. She was very cold and she was given five blankets as her temperature had dropped.”
The 50-year-old has since come out to issue the 'warning signs' for other parents, noting that had her daughter not received help when she did, things could have been much worse.
"When help arrives quickly and in time, as it did in our case, all you can do is thank God, even through the tears, that you are still able to hold your child in your arms and feel them breathing,” she said.
The mum went on to say that children will display signs that something is going on, and that there’s no such thing as there being no possibility of it happening in other families.
"There are no perfect parents who can say, 'This doesn't concern us. This will never happen to us'. And if something like this does happen, it does not mean that you have failed as a parent,” she warned.
In retrospect, she said it’s essential parents are on the ball and taking notice of what their kids are doing.
She said: "Please pay attention to your child's behaviour, the way they communicate, their movements and gestures. Never be indifferent to where your child is or who they are with.”
When it came to Sophy’s health event, the schoolgirl said she believes it was ‘spiked’ because of how severe her symptoms were immediately after smoking it.
She said: "I just presumed it was just weed. One minute into smoking it I started walking into bushes and then collapsed on the floor. I was panicking and my heart was beating really fast and I was sweating.
She explained that she had 'never had a seizure before so it was quite scary to experience for the first time’, adding that she remembers 'shaking and I couldn't speak’ whilst on the floor.
"I had foam coming out of my mouth as I could feel it dripping down on me. I know if I had shut my eyes, I would have been dead,” said Sophy. “I was throwing up bits of blood. I was so panicked about staying alive."
Sophy has since gone on to warn others her age about the dangers of drugs, noting: "This has 100 per cent put me off smoking weed again. I've shared the post I made online with all my mates and I've put it all over my social media.
"I know what I've done and that's my own fault and I'm not asking for any sympathy but, in time, I don't want this happening to anyone else.
"The ambulance said that if they didn't get there in the next 10 minutes, I would have been dead in the middle of the forest."
LADbible reached out to The ArthurGlen Group for comment.
Britt Jones