A 15-year-old girl has died after mixing alcohol and energy drinks by following an online cocktail recipe. The teenager was found unconscious at her Kenhurst house, in Sydney's north-west, on Friday night. She was taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead, in the city's western suburbs, where she died three days later on the Queen's Birthday public holiday on Monday. Scroll down for video A 15-year-old girl has been found dead after mixing alcohol and energy drinks (stock image) The teenager was found unconscious at her home at Kenhurst, in Sydney's north-west, on Friday night (stock image) Police have seized a bottle of alcohol and energy drinks containing high levels of caffeine, after paramedics rushed to her family home at 9.30pm on the Friday. Superintendent Rob Critchlow, from her local Hills Police Area Command, said combining alcohol with popular energy drinks containing the guarana stimulant was a toxic brew. 'This investigation is in its infancy but early inquiries indicate this girl sourced an alcoholic drink recipe from an online site, then put that information to the test,' he said. 'The consequences have been tragic.' She was taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead (pictured), in the city's western suburbs, where she died the next day on the Queen's Birthday public holiday Supt Critchlow said underage drinking was potentially fatal. 'We cannot emphasise more strongly the risk of underage and - more importantly - uninformed alcohol consumption,' he said. 'We have a family devastated by the death of their beloved daughter; they have a lot of questions.' With police investigating the cause of the tragedy, he had a simple message. 'We will endeavour to find answers, but our message has to be: do not risk your health experimenting with high-risk information sourced online,' he said. A post-mortem examination is due to be done this week.<doc-sep>A 15-year-old girl was drinking alone at her north-west Sydney family home last Friday when she watched an online instructional recipe video and consumed a deadly cocktail resulting in a blood alcohol level of eight times the legal driving limit. The teenager, who has been identified as Paris Kamper, was found unconscious at the semi-rural property in Kenthurst shortly before 9.30pm on Friday, before emergency services were called to take her to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Paris Kamper, 15, died after consuming a lethal amount of alcohol. Credit:Facebook Despite the best efforts of medical experts, who kept the teenager under sedation and on ventilation across the weekend, she died on Monday morning just before noon. "The disturbing fact about this whole case is that the young lady was 15 years of age," Superintendent Rob Critchlow, The Hills Police Area Commander, said, describing the teenager as "free-spirited, well-respected and well-liked".<doc-sep>A teenage girl has died in a Sydney hospital with a lethal amount of alcohol in her system after researching alcoholic drink recipes online. Paris Kamper, 15, was found unconscious at a semi-rural property in Kenthurst, in Sydney’s northwest, on Friday night and died on Monday in hospital. Early investigations show the girl had consumed large amounts of alcohol and some other items, which “led directly or indirectly to her death,” Supt Rob Critchlow told reporters on Tuesday. Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon Sign up Energy drinks were also found at the home, police said. The girl was found in a “terrible state” and then transferred to the children’s hospital at Westmead. “This young girl who was healthy and full of beans has taken such a tragic turn,” Critchlow said. The hospital said her blood-alcohol reading was 0.4 – well into the lethal range for alcohol. “She’s from a solid family, they’re obviously very distressed but they’re very keen for this message of safety and responsibility about consumption of alcohol to go out.” While a post-mortem examination is due later this week, police are investigating the use of online material which may have influenced the excessive amount of alcohol consumed. “If it was the case these videos and online platforms contributed to her decision to take the amount of alcohol which she did, which has then led to her death, we’ll definitely look at any options available to us legally,” Critchlow said. Geoff Munro from the Alcohol and Drug Foundation says many people, especially teenagers, don’t realise how lethal alcohol can be. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re mixing up your own or just drinking it out of a bottle, if you’re drinking a large amount, it can kill you,” Munro said. He says Australia needs to change its drinking habits and claims the alcohol industry has too much freedom promoting drinks to young people.<doc-sep>
A teenage girl has died after being found in a serious condition in her Sydney home after drinking an alcoholic concoction she found the recipe for online. The 15-year-old girl, who died on Monday, was found unconscious by emergency services on Friday night at a semi-rural home in Kenthurst. Her blood alcohol level was 0.4. At 0.37, a person is at very high risk of death. Police seized items from the semi-rural home, including a bottle of alcohol and energy drinks. Hills Police Area Commander Superintendent Rob Critchlow said there was "no doubt" videos on certain online platforms contributed to the girl's decision to drink the amount of alcohol she did. "We ask anyone who is involved in the production of these videos that portray excessive consumption of alcohol and the mixture of alcohol with other substances... to stop," he said. "Anyone who thinks that making [these] instructional videos ... is sensible or desirable ... they are wrong. "We have a family devastated by the death of their beloved daughter; they have a lot of questions. "We will definitely be looking at any option that is available to us legally." Superintendent Critchlow described the girl's death as "pointless". Police have drilled down on their warnings to young people about underage drinking, especially experimenting with information sourced online. "There is no safe level of drinking for those who are underage or the inexperienced," Superintendent Critchlow said. "There are always hazards that go with the unreasonable or unmoderated use of alcohol." The girl was not drinking with anyone else at the time and police said her parents were out but other family members were at home. She has been described as "well-respected and well-loved" and had a part-time job locally and a keen interest in animals, looking after chickens, horses and other livestock at her home. "She was a young, healthy girl full of beans [and] not known to have a drinking issue," Superintendent Critchlow said. Police have warned all parents to check access to alcohol in the house.