Emmett’s Story: Watch For Batteries

Share This Post

Emmett's Story: Watch For Batteries

Emmett, a 12 month old, swallowed a battery fallen out of the remote control. The acid from the battery caused 2 perforations to his esophagus and trachea, and multiple cases of collapsed lung, he has endured 14 surgeries, and has been under General anesthetic 20 times so far, he has had close to 200 X-rays, and has hospitalized in the Pediatric ICU for over 19 weeks.
But many kids are not this lucky!


More To Explore

diabetes

Are All Carbohydrates Evil?

Not all carbohydrates are evil! In fact many carbohydrates have extensive health benefits for us. As we shared earlier, you should include some carbohydrates in

health

White and black bean veggie burger

Burgers have become the masters of greasy and fast food, but that’s how advertising makes its way into our society, here is a Wow! recipe

infographics

United States of Organ Donors

Every 10 minutes someone is added to the National Transplant Waiting List. Every donor can on average save up to 8 lives. Every day an

Fitness

8 Tips to Stop Overeating

This may sound a little weird, but humans actually have an instinctual fear of hunger, our reaction to hunger has not evolved with our convenience-centered

Scroll to Top