A two-year-old girl ended up in hospital after drinking from McDonald’s Happy Meal bottle ‘filled with cleaning fluid’.

Katharina Schlemm, 34, visited the drive-thru of a McDonald’s branch in the Kassel-Bettenhausen region of Hesse, Germany, with her daughter on Thursday.

The mother claims that instead of water, the Happy Meal’s drinking bottle contained ‘a strongly alcoholic-smelling liquid, probably a disinfectant’, according to the Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA).

She said the child ‘turned bright red’ and screamed after drinking from the 0.33-litre bottle. The mum then called the police after the shift supervisor allegedly did not take the situation seriously and demanded the bottle back.

A police spokesperson confirmed officers are now investigating on suspicion of negl

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