Dr. Ashley Alker

It's one of the reasons we say, you know, don't make home formula.

You know, obviously, if you're breastfeeding, that's great, but don't make your own formula at home.

And it's one of the reasons that the FDA regulates formula so well and so highly.

And, you know, they found this botulism issue with BiHeart quickly, but it's still something that...

has unfortunately affected many infants.

So the droopy, long story short, the droopy eyes is one of the things you will see in botulism kind of early on.

It's one of the things that is kind of what we call pathognomonic for the disease.

It's one of the things that if you can pick it up, it's often one of the early signs.

But it is a difficult disease to put your finger on.

I guess I'll start by answering this and saying that I am not a stereotypical emergency medicine doctor.

So we're kind of known as a group of individuals to be thrill seekers.

There's a lot of my colleagues have climbed Everest and rock climb and

you know, mountain bike and do, you know, crazy cool things and are space medicine doctors.

I'm a writer and I prefer to be safety first oriented.

And so I think I'm in a certain subset of emergency medicine doctors that maybe have a

our job and the things that we've learned and seen in becoming physicians.

So yes, there are a lot of things that change my behavior.

I mean, everything from not wanting button batteries in my home to, you know, because kids, if they swallow a button battery, it can cause, very specifically, just this type of battery can cause

a perforation or hole in the stomach and intestinal tract.

And that's a very big emergency for kids.