An Indianapolis woman faces a series of battery and neglect charges for injecting feces into her son's IV bag.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - An Indianapolis woman faces a series of battery and neglect charges for injecting feces into her son's IV bag.

The 15-year-old boy was having leukemia treatments at Riley Hospital for Children. Court documents show 41-year-old Tiffany Alberts was caught on video injecting the feces into the IV and later admitted to it.

Since Alberts' removal from her son's bedside, he has improved. But doctors say they lost the best time to treat his leukemia because they were battling the infections from the feces IV injections.

Investigators say Alberts was seen on video surveillance injecting her son's IV with a syringe. Doctors say the infections have caused hypotension and septic shock, requiring him to be on a dangerous drug to control his blood pressure. At one point he had to be intubated and went on a ventilator.

After receiving his first round of chemotherapy, Alberts' son was readmitted to the hospital with a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea. When doctors tested the teen's blood, they found bacteria normally seen in stool - something they had no explanation for. That prompted the investigation.

Alberts at first said she was injecting water into the IV line to flush it because the drug was burning him. Later she admitted to injecting fecal matter into the IV line to get her son moved from the ICU to another floor of the hospital because she felt the treatment was better there. At first Alberts said she only did it twice, but later said she'd done it several times.

Investigators found a bag containing fecal matter in the bathroom, where Alberts told them she had put it.

The boy has had no fever since his mother was removed from his bedside.