2-year-old boy in critical condition after being stung by 150 wasps while riding toy car.

A playful afternoon turned into a terrifying nightmare for a two-year-old boy named Beckham Reed. While riding his electric toy car in the backyard of his Georgia home, Beckham accidentally hit a nest of yellow jackets. In the blink of an eye, the toddler was swarmed by the angry wasps and stung more than 150 times. The entire ordeal was described as a "horrific accident" by his family.

Beckham, who was born with only one kidney, was initially given morphine and Benadryl at a hospital and sent home after doctors found him to be breathing normally. However, things took a turn for the worse less than 24 hours later when the little boy's skin started turning yellow. His concerned parents, Peyton and Mariah, immediately rushed him to the emergency room at Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick.

Doctors at the hospital quickly realized that Beckham was experiencing multi-organ failure, including his kidney, heart, and liver. They transferred him to the intensive care unit at Memorial Savannah, where he was put on dialysis, ventilator support, and given IV medications to filter out the toxins from the wasp stings. According to a fundraising page created to support the family, the amount of toxins in Beckham's body was too much for his young and small body to handle.

Despite the scary situation, Beckham's body is responding positively to the medical treatment and his family continues to pray for his recovery. The fundraising page also mentions that the experience is not a common one and that there is no specific antivenom for yellow jackets. Instead, doctors can only support the body while the toxins work their way out.

Beckham's father, Peyton, also got stung while trying to protect his son from the wasps. The toddler's mother, Mariah, who is pregnant with their second child, is unable to work as they focus on taking care of Beckham. A GoFundMe page was set up to help the family with medical and living expenses, and it has already raised over $36,000.

Interestingly, Beckham's unfortunate wasp encounter happened almost three years after a similar incident involving a 20-year-old man in Ohio. The man was stung 20,000 times by bees and ingested 30 of them while trimming trees, causing him to fall into a coma. Miraculously, he woke up from the coma and survived. As for Beckham, his family and the medical team are hopeful for his recovery and are doing everything they can to help him pull through this challenging ordeal.

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