Jucee Juice fruit drink 'left 18-month-old girl with painful blisters in mouth and a raging temperature'

Demi-Leigh Crofts claims her daughter, Khaleesi-Leigh Walker, was unable to eat for days after consuming drink with 'strange taste and smell'

An 18-month-old girl was left with blisters in her mouth and a "raging" temperature after drinking fruit juice, her mum claims.

Demi-Leigh Crofts said her daughter, Khaleesi-Leigh Walker, was unable to eat for days until the blisters went away on their own.

The 24-year-old mum claims her daughter became poorly after drinking a Jucee Juice drink which had a strange taste and smell.

Environmental health officers and Jucee have launched an investigation into her claims, the Nottingham Post reports.

Demi-Leigh, of Carlton, Nottingham, said said she purchased seven seven crates of apple and blackcurrant, each containing 18 packs, from a Farmfoods store, but they weren't due to go out of date until the end of April.

She said: "I gave some to my little girl and she got poorly. She ended up with all these blisters in her mouth, and a raging temperature.

"I got her a drink and I was a bit thirsty, so I drank a bit as well.

"The taste was unbelievable. I smelled it and the first thing that came to mind was a nail shop - acetone or something.

"My partner smelled it and he said it smelled like petroleum."

Demi-Leigh, a full-time mum whose partner is Paul Walker, a 39-year-old delivery driver, claims she poured some of the drink into a glass with a penny and the penny came out "lovely and shiny".

She added: "With my daughter being so poorly with blisters in her mouth, it makes me wonder whether it was the juice.

"She couldn't eat for about four days because of the blisters. They eventually went on their own."

Demi-Leigh said Khaleesi-Leigh drank the juice on March 27 and she took her to her GP, who said she had blisters and to give her paracetamol and Nurofen.

She said she didn't associate her condition with the drinks until she tasted it herself, and that the last two bottles in the pack also smelled odd.

Demi-Leigh said she had returned to the Farmfoods shop and that staff told her they would put in a complaint.

She said she also contacted Jucee and the environmental health section at Gedling Borough Council.

A Jucee spokesperson said: "We have been made aware of this incident on Tuesday and have contacted the customer so we can investigate further.

"We have apologised for any distress this has caused and will keep the customer informed as our inquiries proceed."

A spokeswoman for Gedling Borough Council confirmed that it is investigating.

A spokesperson said: "If anyone has concerns of a similar nature please call our Environmental Health team on 0115 9013972."

Farmfoods declined to comment.