I'm A Celebrity's Sue Cleaver in near death scare as she recalls sudden illness on Corrie

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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Sue Cleaver worried fans when she detailed her near death experience with sepsis back in 2019.The 59-year-old was on the set of Coronation Street when she started to feel unwell and her co-star Melanie Hill later pointed out that her feet had gone "blue and purple".Being an IBS sufferer, the Eileen Grimshaw actress believed she was having a bad flare up.

Little did she know at the time that a quick-thinking phone call had saved her life from sepsis.Speaking on This Morning in 2019, she explained: "I went home after lunch and got into bed and tried to go to sleep."My husband [James Quinn], who also works on Corrie, was on a night shoot and tried to ring me.Sarah Beeny says losing hair was ‘really traumatic’ amid chemo"He said, 'Something's not right.

I can't hear what she's saying because your teeth are chattering too much'."He came back and I was just shaking. He rang out daughter, who's a paramedic who said, 'Get her to hospital'."At the time, Sue's temperature was 39.9 and doctors swiftly delivered the news she had sepsis."Immediately I was on fluids and antibiotics.There was an hour window of opportunity," she added to hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford.Sepsis is life threatening and can be hard to spot.It happens when your immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage your body's own tissues and organs.Symptoms of the condition vary but can include; confusion or disorientation, shortness of breath, high heart rate, fever, or shivering, or feeling very cold, extreme pain or discomfort, and clammy or sweaty skin.Now recovered from the condition, the actress is ready for I'm A Celebrity...