TAMPA – A Bay Area 5-month-old is a lucky guy after being brought to the hospital last week with a condition called water intoxication.
Ladamien Barton’s mom says she wasn’t getting enough cans of baby formula through the WIC program, so she was stretching it out.
Directions say mix six scoops with eight ounces of water, but mom Geri Moss said she was mixing four scoops to 14 ounces of water instead.
She didn’t realize that was a no-no until Ladamien developed seizures and couldn’t breathe.
“He was off in a daze, he wasn’t following my hand, he started screaming,” Moss recalled. “He curled up in a ball. I went to lift him up but he stopped breathing. As soon as he stopped breathing, I put him on his back and started doing CPR.”
“Another hour he would have been dead,” offered UCH pediatrician Dr. James Orlowski.
Growing up, this isn’t really news to me. It has been happening for years. Still sad that the baby got so sick!!
That’s so sad. It’s “funny” you posted that because I was just talking to my friend Shari today about the economy and she mentioned the story. It’s good to know that this isn’t acceptable…I pry would’ve never known if I were to have a kid…
It’s not the economy
It’s the fact that the American Financial Assistance when you are in time of need is not great. by the AFA I mean welfare.