1 Water intoxication. 2  Giving too much water to a baby can lead to water intoxication. 3  This happens when excess amounts of water dilute the electrolytes in the babyâs blood. 4  Electrolytes such as sodium and potassium are important for normal body functions and diluting these can lead to serious problems such as seizures.
A semi-private room ran $222 daily, or more than $81,000 per year. And the average nursing home stay is 835 days, or more than two years, according to the government's latest National Nursing Home Survey. Costs widely vary from person to person, both because of geographical difference in rates and because each resident's length of stay differs.
The same Genworth survey published the national average of home health aides to be $20 per hour and homemakers to be $19 per hour. Applying this hourly rate of $20 for a caregiver means that home care costs about $4900 per month, which consists of 8 hours daily / 7 days a week. Following along this line of reasoning, the cost of home care is $1400 more than assisted living. However, when it is practical to hire a caregiver for 6 hours daily rather than 8 hours, or 5 days a week instead of 7 days, then the costs are very similar.