JESS Wright has shared that she was terrified when her "lifeless" son was rushed to hospital in an ambulance.
The former star of The Only Way Is Essex has taken to social media to share a scary post about how her son recently became "limp and lifeless".
Taking to Instagram to to share the scary health update with her fans and followers, Jess revealed how the past week had been "tough" for her baby boy and their family.
"I wanted to share what happened, to reiterate how important it is to go & get them checked when your gut knows something just isn't right," she began.
She then explained how her young son, Presley, 2, "suddenly became limp & lifeless" last Tuesday.
Jess said how he was "refusing food & then throwing up in the night".
She went on: "He's been in our bed every night since (something he's never really done that much).
"This sickness turned into a horrific cough, with a temperature, until finally on Friday my mother's instinct kicked in & I took him to a&e.
"He was sent home as his observations after another dose of nurofen were 'ok' & they couldn't hear anything suspicious in the lungs.
"At this point, for 48 hours he'd had a temperature & his breathing was rapid, especially during the night, which frightened me beyond belief."
Jess then explained how Saturday came and her son was "more lifeless than ever" and had "no colour in his face" after having not eaten for 48 hours.
"I was on my own with him around lunch time & I noticed his cough wasn't letting up, which went on & on & on," she said, before explaining how she called her mum and husband and asked them to come around quickly.
Sensing something wasn't right, Jess ran him upstairs "not knowing what to do to stop him from coughing".
She then called 999 after he fell asleep and within 8 minutes there was an ambulance at her front door.
"He had some RSV which the paramedics noticed & all I could do was cling onto him hoping he was going to be ok," she explained.
"The lady on the call also told me to go & find a defibrillator, & it was at that point I honestly wanted to just collapse.
"He went to hospital with a throat steroid given in the ambulance, which calmed the coughing down but now he was back asleep & his oxygen dropped.
"I was terrified in that ambulance, something I never want to happen again," she went on.
She then explained how at hospital, he "had a top up of the throat steroid" and within a couple of hours, his coughing calmed down.
Jess wrote how it was a "very scary and long" four hours but the doctor eventually found that her son "had crackling at the bottom of his right lung" which was a "chest/lung infection".
"He was on antibiotics from Friday," she added in the comments section, before noting how 48 hours later he was "up playing with his horses & animals again, has eaten little & often & has his cheeky laugh back".
She concluded: "To say I'm relieved is an understatement.
"I guess I'm just trying to say, don't wait, go to the hospital & get them checked because you never know how these things can escalate & thank god for the doctors & nurses that helped us.
"Now time to watch my baby be the funny little boy he always is & let him go back to his favourite place, the farm."
Fans and friends were quick to comment on the post, with many flooding the comments section with messages of love and heartfelt well wishes.
Last August, Jess revealed that her baby boy had been diagnosed with "a congenital heart disease called Bicuspid Aortic Valve".
At the time of announcing her son's health condition on social media, she said: "This condition affects how blood flows from the heart to the rest of the body and will require monitoring & care over time."
Jess and her husband William Lee-Kemp welcomed baby Presley in May 2022.
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