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    Mom bans 58-year-old grandma from her 6-year-old grandson's hospital room after putting her 'miracle water' into his IV: 'I would rather have her mad at me than my son septic'

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    Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
    Sep 30, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

    It's sad to know you cannot always trust your closest family members in a medical crisis. Some of you might have family members who don't believe in modern medicine, and wouldn't be a trusted adult to make medical decisions for your child if you were unable to show up to the hospital during a medical emergency. We want to see the best in our family, but tolerating someone's wacky beliefs during Thanksgiving dinner is very different from letting them and their Facebook medical degrees take the wheel when your kid is miserable with a high fever or experiencing long-term, painful symptoms of unknown origin. 

    Most people are aware that they cannot make medical decisions for a child without first consulting the child's parents or guardians. Giving kids alternative medicine that is not backed by medical science without asking their parents first is an egregious violation of trust, and anyone who does that should not be left alone with children. 

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    • The grandmother in this story endangered her grandson's already feeble health by putting holy water into his IV when he was hospitalized. Luckily, the boy's mom caught her in the act and was able to alert the nurse right away, quite possibly saving his life.

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    • Am I the bad guy for telling my mom she’s not allowed in the hospital room after she brought “miracle water” and tried to sneak it into my son’s IV line?

      I'm 30F my mom is 58F, my son is 6M and has been inpatient for complications from a nasty infection. We've been living on the pediatric floor for a week. My mom visited with a mason jar of "miracle water" she got from a friend of a friend's church healer. I
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    • thanked her and set it aside, told her the team had my son on specific IV meds and fluids with strict protocols. While I stepped into the bathroom, the IV pump started alarming. I came out to my mom twisting at the injection port, saying she was just adding a few drops to bless the line. I
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    • grabbed her hand away and hit the call button. The nurse flushed and changed the cap, told us plainly that any non-sterile liquid in the line is contamination and could cause a bloodstream infection. I told my mom she was done visiting unsupervised and that she needed to leave; when she argued, security escorted her out. She's now telling relatives I
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    • chose medicine over faith and won't let a grandmother help heal her baby. She doesn't understand that an IV is a sterile highway into my child's bloodstream. Crossing that line isn't a difference of opinion, it's dangerous tampering. I'm not rejecting comfort or prayer; I'm
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    • rejecting unauthorized substances in medical equipment while my kid is fighting an infection. Boundaries exist to protect him from preventable harm, and if enforcing them means banning anyone who can't respect them, even my own mother, I'll do it every time. I would rather have her mad at me than my son septic because I was polite. AITA?
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    • SLCPDSoakingDivision No. I would also limit her interactions with him after he gets out too. NTA
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    • Arshine25 Facts, once someone shows they cant respect boundaries you gotta keep it tight... kiddo's health comes first every time.
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    • OsageBrandywine Respect boundaries yes but these aren't normal thoughts either. Nobody with an IQ over 50 thinks it's a good idea to pour random a liquid that was given to you into somebody's IV.
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    • Major-Pen-6651 In a mason jar that probably has a rusty lid and is definitely NOT sterile.
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    • OsageBrandywine You can't convince me that there wasn't something nefarious involved with this. I just, I can't believe it. Like munchausen's by proxy or something.
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    • No-Association5884 No, these people GENUINELY believe that if certain words are said, magical properties occur Abracadabra
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    • Lulu Tease Yeah it's one thing to pray for the child it's another to put water in his IV line that could have turned out so badly
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    • merryjoanna Plus she waited until mom was out of the room. Because she knew it was wrong and stupid to do. Or at the very least, she knew mom wouldn't allow it.
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    • mkbutterfly Everyone else has great advice re: the extremely awful behavior of that person, but I just want to give you a hug, OP. When our little ones are desperately ill, we feel absolutely powerless & it's such a scary time of heightened anxiety. Instead of providing quiet support, being there for you, etc. — a super scary time was made to be absolutely terrifying + I'm sure your stress is now through the roof. During times like this, I have learned
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    • that it's okay to block ppl until I can handle dealing with their BS again. Take of you & Bubs right now & don't interact with or allow anyone or anything who doesn't provide you safe & sane support. We're all sending you healing thoughts & you're 100% NTA!
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    • Apprehensive War9612 Girl, you should have had her arrested. You're lucky the hospital didn't. Banning her from the hospital is the least you could do, and to h_|| with anyone who believes that BS she was saying. If you hadn't caught her what she was doing could have k_led him. I hope you seriously consider not allowing her yo be around your son unsupervised when he comes home either. NTA
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    • CherryblockRed Wine Having been septic in my life -- I can tell you that you DEFINITELY made the right decision. NTA.
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    • bassman314 ΝΤΑ My mom was an RN and one of the biggest bastions of faith I've ever known. She would have removed your mom. One body part at a time, if that's what it took. When I still was a believer, I truly believed that God had blessed and called those into the medical field, and maybe it's a good idea to listen to them.
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    • FannishNan Same. Grew up Pentecostal and NEVER heard anything like this. We'd say the same. The medical staff were called to the medical field and even if you were to annoint forehead nowhere someone it'd be oil and on the near internal. My God I'd like to lock her in a room with a bunch of the Lil ol ladies I grew up with at church. They'd wreck her.
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    • PersimmonQueen83 I can hardly believe someone would be this stupid.
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    • ImaginaryPie7696 No. As a nicu mama I almost had a heart attack reading this.
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    • Shoddy_Lifeguard_852 She's now telling relatives I chose medicine over faith and won't let a grandmother help heal her baby. Sounds like your mother joined a cult. Honestly, have you considered an order of protection? Personally, I wouldn't permit any visits, supervised or otherwise. Her lack of judgment is staggering. (Side comment, as a Catholic, where we have Holy Water, no way would anyone not crazy think this needed to be infused into an IV bag.)
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