bengaluru a oneyearold girl from chinnappanahalli in east bengaluru who mistakenly drank toilet cleaning acid kept in a water bottle on september 20 is battling for life at rainbow hospital herepayal is the second child of a labourer couple from biharthe incident took place at 2pm when the family was attending a puja at a friends newly built house payals mother gemini devi had given her a biscuit and after eating that the girl asked for water when devi found a halffilled bottle on a window shelf she mistook it for water immediately after taking one or two sips the child started screaming and fumes came out of her mouth which shocked the parents soon she became breathless and restlessthe bottle was half empty and as it looked like water my wife gave it to her we realised the mistake only after she started crying we took her to a nearby hospital but were asked to shift her to a bigger centre we then came to rainbow hospital where she was put on ventilator immediately she is now under observation said payals father jairaj mathurdr sujatha t consultant paediatric intensivist rainbow hospital said the childs food pipe stomach walls and windpipe walls were damaged payal cannot even swallow saliva after four weeks shell undergo surgery to widen the food pipe when the upper part of the gut is healed she told toithe hospital has started a crowdfunding initiative to help the girl as her parents are poorbottle carried acid labeldoctors said the parents of payal had brought the bottle to the hospital the bottle was a typical water container and bore a label toilet cleaning acid we dont know what exactly was the chemical component in it but it was acid parents have to be careful while adminisering anything to children said dr sujatha