A university student was rushed to hospital after drinking half a bottle of fabric freshener that she mistook for a bottle of water.

Lukia Pardoe made the blunder after a night of heavy drinking at a uni leavers social. She returned home at 1am and grabbed the bottle, not realising it was actually a bottle of 'Fresh Linen' fabric refresher.

Lukia admits the liquid burned her throat right away but she dismissed the discomfort as having eaten a hot pizza before going to bed. The following morning, the student saw the empty cleaning product and realised with horror what she had done.

She dialled 999 and was rushed to Warwick Hospital by her flatmate. After blood tests and an ECG test, Lukia was prescribed charcoal tablets to help remove the toxins.

Lukia has now recovered but still has a bad cough and a chemical taste in her mouth.

The student, from Birmingham, said: "I don't actually know why [it was there]. I had gone back to my uni house after not being there for ages and I didn't know what was on my desk.

"I went to sleep and there were three bottles on my desk, two of them were water and one was fabric freshener. I woke up at 3am and I was so thirsty because I had been drinking.

"I unscrewed what I thought was a water bottle. I thought I had burned my mouth on some pizza or something but it was just the chemicals.

"I had half of the bottle. I was still really drunk and I carried on drinking it. I just remember thinking this water tastes really bad.

"Throughout the night I must have gone downstairs to get about 10 more glasses of water. I must have been doing it to get the chemical taste out of my mouth."

Lukia said that the consultant at the hospital could not stop laughing when she explained what had happened. Doctors explained she had flushed out most of the chemicals by drinking water throughout the night.

She added: "They gave me charcoal tablets to absorb all the toxins. I just have a chemical taste and a lot of coughing. At the time I had quite bad stomach cramps."

The student posted a video about the incident online, which has more than 60,000 views. She now sees the funny side of the story and vowed to never keep any cleaning products near her bed again.

Lukia said: "I freaked out, I've never freaked out like that before. My family and friends keep laughing at me, I haven't heard the end of it. I'm not going to keep anything like that on my desk again.

"It is a funny story. I'm very grateful nothing worse happened."

Commenters on Lukia's post have also found the incident funny. One said: "How did you drink half a bottle, surely the first mouthful was rancid."

Another said: "At least you will have the nicest smelling breath." Another said: "Oh my god the panic I would go into."

The cleaning product company also commented on the post, saying: "We don't recommend drinking the product."