As an infant botulism survivor, the ByHeart formula outbreak hits home

What parents need to know

When I was just two months old, I suddenly went limp. I stopped eating. I was too weak to even cry. My parents rushed me to the ER where the astute clinicians immediately realized something was very wrong. I was airlifted to a children’s hospital two hours away. The diagnosis? Infant botulism, a rare and life-threatening infection that fewer than 200 ba…