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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 2765693" data-attributes="member: 11520"><p>This is clearly a tragedy. My wife is an RN at regional pediatric intensive care unit. The kinds of stories she brings home are truly heartbreaking. If you read the full story you'll see that they gave the child a mixture of water, vodka and sugar. The water is almost as dangerous as the vodka to an infant. Too much water throws off the electrolyte balance and causes the brain to swell leading to damage and death. Many poor parents mix powdered baby formula much weaker than the directions suggest and then feed extra volume because the child is still hungry. Soon the kids end up at the hospital or the morgue. Most people don't know about this danger and it happens with disturbing frequency to good intentioned and even intelligent parents who simply don't have enough money. The parents that really upset me are the ones whose children come in with 'non-accidental trauma'. Crystal Methamphetamine is a big problem in this part of the country and the number of kids coming in from houses with meth labs inside is really frightening. The level of neglect and abuse by parents using meth is horrible.</p></blockquote><p></p>