Little Freya Hunter, 3, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy battles for life after contracting salmonella in hospital

25 Sep 2013 07:51

DISTRAUGHT mum, Carolynne Hunter believes that the seriously ill tot caught the potentially fatal bug during treatment at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

Daily Record

A SERIOUSLY ill child is fighting for her life after contracting salmonella food poisoning in hospital.

Three-year-old Freya Hunter, who needs to be fed through a tube, caught the killer bug during treatment.

Mum Carolynne Hunter believes her daughter got the bug while being fed milk and water through the tube in the hospitals high dependency unit.

She was told Edinburghs Royal Hospital for Sick Children had withdrawn feeding tubes and sterile milk to be tested as part of the infection probe.

Last night, NHS Lothian confirmed a tube-fed patient had contracted salmonella and that everything was being done to prevent the spread of infection.

Freya, who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spinal curvature, blindness and cant speak or eat and has to be tube-fed, was rushed to hospital after going into respiratory arrest.

The youngster, from Alva, Clackmannanshire, was already in a very fragile condition when she was diagnosed with salmonella last Tuesday.

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Little Freya Hunter, 3, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy battles for life after contracting salmonella in hospital