Bengaluru: Carbon monoxide may have caused girl's death, says doctors

BENGALURU: The tragic case of a six-year-old girl who died and her parents who took ill hours after they entered their recently fumigated house in Vasanthnagar on Monday, appears to be a case of carbon monoxide poisoning, doctors who treated the trio said.
While police said the postmortem report of the girl, Ahaana, is yet to arrive, doctors who treated her and her parents said the trio did not show symptoms of insecticide poisoning; their case seemed like one of carbon monoxide poisoning.
"The patients came with extreme bradycardia and hypoxia, which did not appear to be related to the insecticide used in their apartment," the doctor in charge of the hospital told TOI.
The medical team is awaiting the girl's postmortem report. The doctors said they can confirm their diagnosis after looking at the report, which is expected to be ready by Thursday.
"These cases generally occur when gas geysers are kept in closed spaces. Here, the patients claimed they don't use a gas geyser, so we do not know the source of carbon monoxide. But their symptoms relate to carbon monoxide poisoning," the doctor added.
The girl's parents, Vinod Kumar and Nisha, were discharged on Wednesday. The couple will travel back to their hometown in Kannur, Kerala. "They are yet to decide if they will come back to the house where the mishap took place," a relative said.
The family of three had come back to their Vasanthnagar residence on Monday, which was sprayed with insecticide three days earlier. Within a few hours of their return, the family members began feeling nauseous and Ahaana began vomiting. The three were admitted to a hospital with the help of the relative, where the daughter breathed her last.