Eight of the 10 McLoughlin Middle School students sickened by a spicy Mexican candy Wednesday returned to school Thursday.
School officials say they are still trying to figure out what happened at the school Wednesday morning, Vancouver Public Schools district spokeswoman Pat Nuzzo said Thursday.
Dr. Jack Stump, an emergency department physician at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver who treated five of the children, said one child had a bottle of the candy and poured small piles of the powder into the palms of several classmates. The kids swallowed the powder and then experienced nausea and abdominal pain; one child vomited.
Stump said he believed the children were going to be OK.
