UK Baby Suffers Heart Attack, Loses Half His Tongue After Drinking Drain Cleaner He Thought Was Milk

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In a shocking incident, a 13-month-old baby suffered a heart attack and catastrophic internal burns after he accidentally drank household drain cleaner, mistaking it for milk, according to reports.

The baby, identified as Sam Anwar Alshameri from Birmingham, crept behind his mother, who was cleaning the bathroom at their flat, and drank caustic soda from a white bottle on the floor in May last year, thinking it was milk, according to a report by The Sun.

The boy suffered burns to his mouth, tongue, lips and airways and suffered a heart attack, rendering him unconscious for three minutes. However, Sam defied “million-to-one" odds by surviving the heart attack, as per doctors. He was admitted to intensive care at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where tubes were ins