Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

Police are investigating after a six-month-old girl was left with a deformed head and suffering seizures when two full shampoo bottles hit her after falling from a high-rise tower block.

Images released by the girl’s family show her misshapen head after doctors diagnosed her with fractured parietal bones.

When babies are born their skulls are soft, which helps them pass through the birth canal. It can take 9-18 months before a baby’s skull is fully formed, and as a result, they are especially sensitive to blows or knocks which can cause serious injury.

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The infant and her mum, Ms Lin, were out on a walk when the accident happened outside the Wanghaihui Jingyuan residential district in Shenzhen, in South China’s Guangdong Province, on 11th May.

The bottles of shampoo plunged down the side of the residential building, striking the girl on the head and knocking her unconscious, her father, Mr Gao, said.

Mr Gao added: “Two bottles of shampoo, each 750 millilitres and full, hit my baby.

“She immediately lost consciousness and started seizing.”

Witnesses helped Ms Lin call an ambulance, which took her and her child to Shenzhen Children’s Hospital.

Yesterday (14th May), the facility said the girl was found to have a bleed in her brain, but her condition is stable.

Medics also noticed temporary loss of consciousness, trouble focusing, and other concussion-like symptoms.

Paediatric neurosurgeon Liao Chuanpeng said they were monitoring the infant for further symptoms.

“The concern is that she may develop epilepsy, which is life-threatening to the child in the long term.”

Her dad Mr Gao said: “I’m most concerned that our child won’t survive this early stage.

“Even after that, there’s a possibility she may begin seizing again in the following three to four months.

“And we don’t know what sort of brain damage she has suffered, and how it’ll affect her development.”

Police in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District where the incident took place said they were investigating the incident but had yet to identify a culprit.

The gated community in question as 170 households, while the high-rise from which the shampoo bottles are most likely to have fallen has 20 floors, reports said.

None of the residents had admitted to owning the shampoo bottles at the time of writing, the authorities said.

Reports citing a local lawyer said every resident in the tower block could be ordered to compensate the family as a group, should no single household come forward.

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