It has now been several days since the brand’s E.Coli-contaminated pizzas Buitoni are recalled. Indeed, several of them have caused poisoning in children, including the death of two of them.
Amélie, Julia’s nine-year-old mother, was able to go to Cyril Hanouna’s set to talk about all this. First of all, the young woman opened up about her family’s descent into hell: “She consumed a pizza even two, one with cheese and one with Bolognese on February 16. It was going very well and on Tuesday, February 22, she began to be ill. She contracted a kind of gastro six days later. She had diarrhoea, she had a lot of wind pain, she was nauseous but she wasn’t vomiting. I went to the general practitioner on Thursday, he told me that she probably had a big gastro (…) she gave me treatment for a gastro”.
But things got worse, she continues: “The next morning she had a waxy complexion, it’s not like gastro, I felt that she was not well, she was on the ground. I went to the pediatric ward in St Etienne, they took care of me right away, they did check-ups. She was immediately admitted to intensive care (…) Her condition was getting worse. When I asked if my daughter was going to die, they told me they couldn’t answer me.”
The following Sunday, the little girl was transported by helicopter from Saint Etienne to Lyon. “On Monday she went to the block, we stayed six days in intensive care (…) we were released on March 15, she is under surveillance at home, she was unable to return to school” said Amélie who is afraid to feed her daughter now. Moreover, this contamination could have serious consequences. Apart from the fact that the checkups are not good, Julia has to see the doctor every week and do urine and blood tests. She could have sequelae like blood pressure or a kidney transplant that could show up in a few years… A heartbreaking story.
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