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<\/p>\nA man was given just hours to live after a roast dinner led to him developing sepsis.<\/p>\n
Udhyam Amin from Kingswood in Surrey, went to A&E with suspected food poisoning in February after having a roast chicken dinner in a pub.<\/p>\n
Doctors at St Helier Hospital in south London told him he was infected with the bacteria campylobacter.<\/p>\n
Mr Amin was soon rushed to the resuscitation room where his blood pH fell dangerously low and he suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n
He was placed on a ventilator in intensive care, with medics warning his family he had developed sepsis and may only have hours to live.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Amin’s recovery was hailed as a miracle by his family, who described him as a “cat with nine lives”.<\/p>\n
His daughter Parisha Bains, a surgical registrar at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We were told he had gone into sepsis and multi-organ failure. Most of his critical organs had shut down. But he made it through the night and that wasn\u2019t expected.<\/p>\n
“It felt like our world had fallen apart. Nothing prepares you for hearing that the person you love may not make it through the day.”<\/p>\n
Udhyam Amin was given just hours to live<\/p>\n
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EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST<\/p>\n
Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK.<\/p>\n
It causes sickness, diarrhoea, tummy pain and fever, and symptoms begin within a few hours or days of eating food that is infected.<\/p>\n
It usually gets better when patients rest and replace fluids, but can lead to sepsis in rare cases.<\/p>\n
After spending a little over two weeks in an induced coma, Mr Amin is now well and back working.<\/p>\n
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Udhyam Amin was sent to intensive care<\/p>\n
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EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST<\/p>\n
The former subpostmaster turned businessman has learned to walk and speak clearly again.<\/p>\n
Ms Bains said: “His kidneys started to work again and he was gradually weaned off his blood pressure support medication, and from then things improved.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s nothing short of a miracle that he is still with us. We laugh and joke that he\u2019s like a cat with nine lives, One of the first things he asked us when he woke up was what date it was because he had to submit his tax returns.<\/p>\n
“Now he is back to work seven days a week and enjoying his life again.”<\/p>\n
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Udhyam Amin has now recovered and is enjoying his life again<\/p>\n
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EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST<\/p>\n
The family have now launched a fundraiser for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Charity to support the intensive care unit, with \u00a337,000 raised so far.<\/p>\n
Mr Amin is also sharing his story to raise awareness ahead of World Sepsis Day on September 13.<\/p>\n
He said: “Words cannot express my gratitude for the exceptional care, compassion and dedication the medical teams showed me during the most difficult time of my life.<\/p>\n
“Their skill and commitment saved my life, and I will be forever grateful. I cannot thank them enough for giving me a second chance.”<\/p>\n
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Udhyam Amin has thanked the doctors who saved his life<\/p>\n
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EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST<\/p>\n
Molly Simpson, head of charity and fundraising at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Charity, said: \u201cUdhyam\u2019s story is both remarkable and inspiring. <\/p>\n
“We are enormously thankful to Udhyam\u2019s family for turning their gratitude into action by raising funds to support St Helier.<\/p>\n
“Their generosity will help us enhance the environment, equipment and support available to patients and their loved ones when they need it most.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was given just hours to live after a roast dinner led to him developing sepsis. Udhyam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[117556,49,48,84,44,961,50950,87674],"class_list":["post-894121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-across-the-uk","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-news","tag-nhs","tag-south-east","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}