A mother shared a warning on Facebook after her toddler nearly died after drinking too much milk.
Anastacia Gencarelli, from Ontario, Canada, revealed her two-year-old Mia used to drink between four and six bottles of milk in a 24-hour period.
Gencarelli noticed her daughter was “lethargic, sleepy, not wanting to eat”, she decided to take her toddler to the Doctor where she was diagnosed with an ear and chest infection. The antibiotics didn’t seem to work, and after a week and another visit to the doctor, she says her ‘mom instinct’ hit her. She told about it to her husband, Mario, they were directed to the hospital.
She took to Facebook to share the details of what happened to her daughter writing, “So I am cuddling her on the couch and my mom instinct won’t stop — look at hubby tell him get the car ready pack a bag lets go — off to emerg we go.
“We were not even in that waiting room 5 minutes before an amazing nurse noticed dad walking very impatiently with our limp baby. She comes flying out saying ‘I don’t care how long you have all been waiting that baby comes with me’.
“We didn’t do triage, we didn’t register, nurse kicked people out of a room for my daughter and as we rush in 6 nurses and 2 Drs follow.’’ Before I know it they are all working on my little girl attaching heart monitors, blood pressure cuffs, everything you can think.’’
“They start trying to take blood and they can’t, they are trying to put an IV in they can’t.”
Gencarelli said that it took them seven tries to draw blood, and had to attach the IV to her leg. She and her husband were in tears and doctors revealed Mia had lost three-quarters of her blood, despite no external bleeding.
She said: “At this point, we are on edge on why shes not. More tests come back and here is why milk anemia. You have heard of not giving a baby too much water well don’t give them too much milk either. Cow’s milk in excess will actually strip your body of Iron – iron is what makes blood no iron no blood.”
“She is still not safe yet. She will need to be on iron for the foreseeable future, she will not be allowed more than 2 bottles or 8 oz portions of milk a day. She almost lost her life. So please if this nothing more than extra knowledge in your mom tool box amazing if it saves you all from the fear, the scare, the terror of watching your child the way our child was spread the news that Milk Anemia is a thing.
“AND ALWAYS TRUST YOUR MOM GUT – cause a few more hours , one more day and this would be a very very different post.point 219 |
This is something that happens so gradually you do not know til it is almost too late.point 72 | This is something 90% of the average person didn’t know about and something only really paediatric dr/nurses have heard and dealt with.point 190 | point 190 | 1
“Last night was the scariest night of our parent life ever and I have decided to share what we went through to hopefully help families not go through what we went through.”
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