HELEN Flanagan's kids have been struck down with Scarlet fever just days after she revealed her son Charlie was "refusing to eat".
The former Corrie star, who is mum to Matilda, six, Delilah, three, and Charlie, one, asked fans for help last week on Instagram.
However, earlier today she shared the devastating news that all three of her children are suffering with the contagious infection.
Helen wrote alongside a pic of Delilah sleeping: "All the kids have Scarlet fever x "Glad to know what it is after Delilah not been herself and the medicine to treat it x." Scarlet fever is a bacterial bug that causes a distinctive red rash and mainly affects children.
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