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UK toddler given poison in Cyprus Poisoned girl makes good recovery
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A two-year-old British girl has been seriously injured while on holiday in Cyprus, after her drink was accidentally mixed with cleaning fluid. A two-year-old British girl who was rushed to hospital in Cyprus after drinking poison is now much better.
She was taken to hospital from the Curium Palace hotel in Limassol after she swallowed the fluid on Saturday. Dr Andreas Hadjidemetriou, of the Makarios Children's Hospital in Nicosia, told the BBC she was now breathing unaided, walking and talking.
The youngster is in a critical but stable condition at the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia. The girl, Annabelle Rhodes, became ill on Saturday after being given a drink at a hotel in Limassol which was mixed with cleaning fluid instead of water.
Police said her father had ordered diluted orange juice, but a barman had used cleaning fluid instead of water. Her father Mark Rhodes, from London, has asked for "total privacy".
The girl is breathing through a respirator and her parents are by her bedside. Cypriot police have questioned the hotel's staff about the incident.
A spokesman for Limassol police said: "The police are investigating this case. Describing her condition as "very good" with "no complications", Dr Hadjidemetriou, the hospital's head of paediatrics, told BBC News that Annabelle and her family were free to travel back to the UK to continue treatment there, but had decided to remain on the island for a few more days.
"The little girl is in the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia. She is serious. Nobody has been arrested. Damage extent
"Her father asked the 43-year-old man to put water in a glass of orange juice at 6.45pm on Saturday. But instead he put something else, some cleaning fluid." She will undergo tests with an endoscopic camera in two or three days' time to check on the healing of stomach lesions caused by the acid in the cleaning fluid.
Her 55-year-old father, who had also tried the drink, had received first-aid treatment and been discharged, police added. Mr Rhodes - who lives in Paddington, west London - also tried the drink and required first-aid at the scene, but was not admitted to hospital.
A spokesman for the family, speaking from the hospital, said: "This is a very emotional time for them and an intensely personal matter. They would like their privacy respected." He is chief executive of two oil transport firms, Petrotrans and Alegratrans, part of the Greenoak Group which has offices in Limassol.
He described the poisoning as a "highly emotional and difficult time".
Both Mr Rhodes and his wife Judith, 32, now must wait as doctors test the extent of the burns to Annabelle's throat, caused when she sucked the chemical down through a straw.
The manager of the Curium Palace, a four-star 1950s boutique hotel where the incident took place, has refused to comment.