Teens with alcohol poisoning often youngest sibling: research
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Teens with alcohol poisoning often youngest sibling: research

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Children who end up in hospital with acute alcohol poisoning are often the youngest members of the family, research has shown. Pediatrician Loes de Veld looked at the anonymous data of 7,000 youngsters admitted with acute alcohol poisoning between 2010 and 2017 and found that most were the youngest sibling in a family. The reason for this may be that parents often pay more attention to what their first and second child are up to, and tend to relax the rules for the youngest child, educational expert Marina van der Wal told Nu.nl. De Veld’s research showed that children under 15 with acute alcohol poisoning had had their first drink long before then.

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