Boy, 3, 'looked dead' after being hospitalised with suspected Salmonella poisoning 'from Kinder egg'

Doctors feared a little boy could have fallen into a coma after he was hospitalised with suspected salmonella poisoning from a Kinder egg.

Billy Way, aged three, was said to have 'looked dead' after he became violently ill after eating his brother's Kinder Surprise chocolate last month.

Mum-of-two Kasey Cooke, from Barry, Wales, said doctors feared the worse for her son due to his dangerously low blood sugar levels, the Mirror reports.

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It comes after several Kinder products, including Kinder Surprise eggs, made at a plant in Belgium, were recalled over an outbreak of the potentially deadly bacteria.

The chocolate factory has been forced to close after investigators recorded more than 100 cases of salmonella, including 63 in the UK.

Kasey, 26, told The Mirror: "Billy loves Kinder Surprise eggs, he eats at least one a week. His older brother got a pack of three for his birthday and as he's not a chocolate fan I gave one to Billy.

"He was excited to eat the chocolate and have the toy inside. But a few days later he started being sick a lot. He couldn't keep anything down and couldn't even hold his weight on his feet.

"I had to put a nappy on him as he couldn't get up to use the toilet. I went to the GP out of hours and he was so severely ill they said go straight to hospital.

"They were worried he could have gone into a coma as his blood sugar was so low. It was terrible. It wasn't worth it for an egg."

The full-time mum said her son was admitted to Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff, Wales, and kept on a drip for four days. She said: "When I sent my family a picture of him in hospital, their response was that he looked dead.

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