Green Paint

Our daughter was around one year old at the time, she had been constipated for a couple of days, which we had put down to her just starting nursery and being a little out of sorts. 

When she eventually went to the toilet, it came out bright green, my wife panicked, so we rushed off to the local A&E with the nappy in tow. We waited in casualty for a couple of hours before being seen by one of the doctors.

When we explained what the problem was, the doctor smiled at us and asked if she had been painting recently. My wife and I looked at each other, not with us, we said and this is when the penny dropped. Our daughter had come back from nursery with a bright green picture a couple of days previously.

On checking with the nursery if our daughter could have eaten the paint, her key worker  replied “oh yes! We couldn’t stop her putting the brush in her mouth, but it is perfectly safe!” She stated this in such a matter of fact fashion, as if it were the norm, I couldn’t believe it!

Then when we told her what had happened, and the fact that we had wasted most of Saturday afternoon in A&E, it was all she could do to stop her self cracking up in front of us. I could have throttled her…………. Oh well at least someone found it funny, and looking back my wife and I can smile to ourselves about it, but it gave us a scare at the time.

Roger from Brighton