Last year, alarming news reports detailed the hospitalizations of at least two children in the U.K. who developed glycerol intoxication shortly after drinking frozen slushies. Now, a first-of-its-kind ...

In February of this year, headlines splashed across U.K. media: "Boy, four, hallucinated and clawed at his face after drinking slushy, mother says," "Mum's plea as 'unconscious' tot hospitalized after ...