A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. Article content

When Kayla Duguay’s phone rang at 7:30 p.m. last Friday, the Miramichi mother assumed it was her daughter, Brooklyn, asking to be picked up early from a supervised “teen night” at a local recreation complex. Article content Article content

Instead, it was centre staff. “They told me they’d already called an ambulance. Brooklyn was having a seizure on the floor.”

When Duguay rushed to the centre, her daughter was still on the floor, surrounded by paramedics, police and lifeguards. “She was crying. She couldn’t move,” Duguay said.

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