I ate a salad from Costco while pregnant...
and my life changed forever because of it READ MORE: Mother, 27, was 'treated like a criminal' by child protection officers By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 17:09 BST, 3 October 2024 | Updated: 17:33 BST, 3 October 2024 e-mail 4 View comments A mother has revealed how a salad from Costco led to a hellish ordeal that saw her newborn snatched away at birth. Her nightmare began in August 2022 when heavily pregnant Susan Horton ate the pre-made salad that contained poppy seeds.
When she gave birth at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in California the next morning, she was told she couldn't take her healthy newborn baby girl home. Tests had detected opiates in the mother-of-five's urine, which doctors interpreted as a sign she was abusing prescription drugs. A horrified Ms Horton pleaded with them that she'd 'never done drugs in my life' and by process of elimination worked it the test must have been caused by the poppy seeds — which contain opiates and have been known to show up in drug tests.
Susan Horton, pictured above with one of her children, had to battle for two weeks to get her youngest back after an erroneous drug test What followed was a humiliating two-week battle to get her daughter Hallie back. Ms Horton had to leave the hospital without her child and was dragged before a juvenile court to prove she wasn't a danger to her child. She told Reveal News : 'He's [the doctor] like, "Well, your urin.