Girl, 2, gets ecstasy pill stuck in her nose after finding mom’s drugs

This mother won’t be winning any parent-of-the-year awards.

A French toddler was high as a tyke after inserting an ecstasy pill up her nose while rummaging through her mom’s drug stash.

A study detailing the inadvertent intoxication was published recently in the journal Archives de Pédiatrie.

“We report a pediatric case of ecstasy intoxication via an unusual route,” study authors wrote of the freak accident, which occurred in Toulouse.

According to the paper, the unidentified woman had called emergency services to inform them that her 2-year-old daughter stuck an ecstasy tablet — a mood-altering club drug — up her nose.

Also known as Molly, ecstasy “acts as both a stimulant and psychedelic, producing an energizing effect, distortions in time and perception, and enhanced enjoyment of tactile experiences,” which has made it a popular designer drug at nightclubs, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The tyke had reportedly gotten ahold of the hallucinogen after reaching “a box above the fridge where she kept ecstasy pills,” per the study.


A child's hand with a pill in it.
The mother lost custody of the child following the incident.
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Fearing her bundle of joy was in peril, the distraught mom tried to extract the tablet but only managed to remove part of it.

Emergency services subsequently rushed the babe to the hospital, where medics noticed that she was restless and agitated with a red residue in her nose.

Meanwhile, tests revealed that the tot had a heart rate of 148 beats per minute, high blood pressure and dilated pupils.


A teen pops a pill at a night club.
Ecstasy is a popular club drug due to its stimulant and psychedelic properties.
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Thankfully, after a dose of medication, the baby’s blood pressure started to go down while an IV-administered medication returned her eyes to normal.

By the next morning, the child’s blood pressure had fully stabilized. The little nipper was discharged from the hospital several several hours later — marking a full day since she had initially inserted the pill.

The mother, meanwhile, was deemed unfit to care for the child.

In accordance with the French law for child protection, the courts took custody of her daughter away from her, and put the child under the care of her paternal grandmother.


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The mother tried to extract the pill, but part of it was left lodged in her child’s nose.
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Unfortunately, the child’s case is one of several instances of “non-intentional acute intoxication with narcotics” among toddlers, with previous incidents occurring after kids orally consumed the drug.

Study authors postulated that such cases “may be the result of severe parental neglect.”

In a far scarier infantile overdose incident in 2022, the 10-month-old son of a California tech honcho overdosed after ingesting fentanyl he found while crawling around a playground in San Francisco. In that case, paramedics administered a life-saving dose of the anti-opioid medication Narcan — bringing the boy back from the brink of death.