Lucy-Jo Hudson has revealed that her son Carter was rushed to hospital after suffering a second ‘crazy’ medical emergency on Saturday.
The Hollyoaks actress, 40, took to Instagram to share her three-year-old son was absolutely fine during the morning, but suddenly ‘turned within a few hours’.
Recalling the terrifying situation to her fans, Lucy-Jo, who plays Donna-Marie Quinn on the Channel 4 soap, shared snaps of Carter lying on a hospital bed and revealed that Carter caught another infection.
She wrote: ‘Honest mum post! This was me and carter on Saturday…. Swipe to see what happened within a few hours.
‘How do they go from being absolutely normal to then being in A&E?
‘He’s 100% better now, I really thought he had a water infection god love him, but it turned out it was another infection (down below) bless him! Thankgod he’s back to his normal self now, well as normal as my threenager is.
‘But how crazy is life, you go from one extreme to another being a mum don’t you? He was on stage doing his Christmas show, the next… we’re in A&E!!!
‘Please share your experience with me so I know I’m not on my own.’
In July, Carter was rushed to hospital again after Lucy-Jo’s mothering instincts felt he was going to die in a terrifying health scare.
She rushed Carter to Ormskirk Hospital in Lancashire when he was 18-months-old due to his serious nut allergy.
Taking to Instagram to share the frightening ordeal, Lucy-Jo revealed Carter went into anaphylactic shock after eating a snack containing traces of nuts.
‘Carter was 18 months. He was in the trolley, eating snacks while I was getting tea with Sienna, and he suddenly looked at me and I knew something was severely wrong,’ Lucy Jo recalled.
‘He went grey, his mouth went blue and he started to go all limp. He was struggling to catch his breath. God did my heart sink, I literally grabbed him out of the trolley, abandoned the shopping and Sienna and I just ran to my car.
‘I strapped him in his car seat (which was awful because at this point he was going in and out of consciousness and his skin was going all mottled and I couldn’t hold him close as I had to drive to A&E.
‘It was 10 minutes but it felt like a lifetime, my poor Sienna was crying in the back asking me if he was going to die.’
Lucy-Jo revealed she carries Carter’s epi-pen, which contains medication block the progression of the allergic response in the body, everywhere and has to inform every restaurant of his nut allergy as well as reading the labels of every food product.
It comes after she also suffered a health emergency herself and was hurried to hospital last month.
She needed urgent treatment in the form of two blood transfusions after being struck down by a mystery illness.
Lucy-Jo was diagnosed with chronic anaemia after taking a six-day break from social media to recover.
Lucy said on Instagram: ‘Well it’s been a crazy time of late…. But I can finally say I am now fully on the mend!
‘Thank you for all your gorgeous and thoughtful messages, you don’t know how much I appreciate your kindness.
‘Sooooo long story short, I was very short of breath last week, having chest pains and it turned out my HB levels were scarily low!!! They should have been between 115-155, and mine were 67… my iron levels should have been 38-48 but they were 1.5!!!
‘I’ve been diagnosed with ‘Chronic Anaemia’.
‘I’m still looking into what’s causing all of this! But thanks to the amazing staff at Salford Royal, I was immediately put on the emergency assessment unit and given 2 blood transfusions, my HB levels have gone up to 94 so I can breathe again, and my iron levels (now I’m on medication for that) are slowly going up, so my health is heading in the right direction!!!’
‘I can honestly say I feel a million times better now…. I can’t actually believe how poorly I felt last week, and how I’ve Managed to function all of this time!? I’m ready to get back to some sort of routine now….
‘Which is a good thing cos the kids have just broken up for half term. Honestly….. how is it the school holidays again?’
The NHS says: ‘Iron deficiency anaemia is caused by lack of iron, often because of blood loss or pregnancy. It’s treated with iron tablets and by eating iron-rich foods.’
Lucy-Jo first started on the soap in 2018 and filmed her final scenes earlier this year.
She previously played Rosie Trevanion in the hit ITV drama Wild at Heart between 2006 and 2013 and before this she was Katy Harris on Coronation Street between 2002 and 2005.
Lucy tied the knot with her Corrie co-star Alan Halsall in 2009 and they were married for nine years before splitting in 2018. They welcomed their daughter Sienna-Rae in September 2013.
She is now in a relationship with Lewis Devine and the couple welcomed their first child together in February 2020, Carter, now three.
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