Teenager Nearly Killed by This Bath Bomb

A teenager was almost killed after she used a bathbomb that contained milk.

Emelia Brain, 13, screamed for help from the bathroom just moments after she sat in the bathtub filled with bathbomb-infused water.

Emelia’s parents ran into the bathroom to find their daughter gasping for air and clawing at her throat.

Wasting no time, the mom and dad gave Emelia ten doses of an inhaler before calling for help.

Paramedics arrived at the house within five minutes. They injected Emelia with shots of antihistamine and adrenaline.

The teenager was taken to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton. Doctors gave her a big dose of steroids and told her family she would be okay.

Later, Emelia’s dad, Scott, read the ingredients in the bathbomb. He discovered the bathbomb contained milk, which Emelia is severely allergic to.

“What if we had been down stairs with the door shut?” Maria, Emelia’s mother, worried. “She could have been in the house by herself. I don’t think she would have stood a chance. The reaction was so fast because she was ingesting the steam. That is the scary thing. It doesn’t bear thinking about.”

Since she was little, Emelia has had to be extremely cautious about what she eats and what cosmetic products she uses.

Emelia first discovered her severe allergy after her mother, who had just eaten yogurt, kissed her. Emelia’s face ballooned.

After extensive allergy tests, Emelia was told she is allergic to all dairy products, eggs, tree nuts, and the cold. She also has asthma.

Before placing the Bomb Cosmetics brand Unicorn Christmas Bath Bomb in the tub, Emelia scanned the product’s ingredients, as she always does.

She was confident it didn’t contain anything she was allergic to, so she dropped it in the bath and watched it fizz.

When Scott checked the bathbomb’s ingredients list, he noticed that known allergens such as milk were not written in bold like they are on food labels.

“It was labelled legally, but it wasn’t in bold,” Maria said. “For Emelia looking at it she thought she checked them all. For a 13-year-old it didn’t stand out. You had to squint to see it.”

Emelia’s family is now advocating for cosmetic brands to label allergens in bold on their product packaging.