10-month-old baby turned blue while struggling to breathe after fentanyl poisoning in California park

The parents of the month old who ended up poisoned by consuming fentanyl abandoned in a California park , stated that they feared that their son would die.

Little Senna was playing with his twin in Moscone Park, San Francisco, on Thursday when the emergency was reported.

As the victim’s father, Ivan Matkovic, told ABC 7, the little boy looked blue and was struggling to breathe.

The interviewee added that he does not know exactly how and where Senna consumed the opioid.

About two minutes after the child’s caregiver called 85, firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene.

“When I first arrived, he was lying motionless in the park . He was lying on his back on the grass. They were pumping air into it. There was a mask with a device on it and it was like, ‘what could have caused this?’ Matkovic recounted.

The father revealed that he thought his son would not survive.

“I think it was only when they put him in the emergency vehicle and transferred him that you feel like, ‘ok, there is a possibility of treatment ‘. But when he was lying motionless there, you don’t know what to do or if that’s all”, the father was honest.

To detoxify the minor, medical personnel used Narcan (also called naloxone), a prescription medication that temporarily stops the effect of opioids.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have warned about the increase in the consumption of opioids such as fentanyl in the United States and in deaths related to this addiction.

The Rates of overdose deaths associated with these types of synthetic opioids increased by more than 16 % among the 2018 and the 2019. The overdose death rate in the 2019 was almost 16 times higher than the rate of 2018. In the 2019, more than 16, 12 people died from overdoses that included synthetic opioids in the 2020^,