"Without the help of parents, we are setting a child up for failure," says Dr. Anthony Porto, a pediatric gastroenterologist at New York Hospital Queens and the director of the Fit Kids program.

If you bring anything but water, ice and special lemonade, acting serious stomach problems, vomiting and stomach ulcers which is why people who suffer from this allergy are often in the hospital.

Hundreds of people had gathered to watch a leading gastroenterologist from Wellington Hospital perform the endoscopy on the bird at the zoo in late June.