RTE star issues trigger warning as he reveals hospital dash horror after sore throat became life-threatening infection

RTE star Carl Mullan has revealed how his sore throat turned into a “very dangerous” situation.

The Dubliner took to social media today to share a story-time on his “run-in” with sepsis to spread awareness for the signs and symptoms.

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Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of an infection that can hide behind any infection at any age, making it difficult to detect the illness and can lead to multiple organ failure and death.

A few years ago Carl got a “very simple” sore throat that progressively got “worse and worse” as the days went on.

He explained: “After a few days of it not going away, I went to the doctor and found out it was actually glandular fever. Glandular fever itself, it’s fairly common and there’s no actual cure for it, so you kind of just have to ride it out and take whatever the doctor prescribes for it.

“After about three more days, and just to warn you, this is where this story gets a little bit disgusting. I was so run down, I was in so much pain, I was taking anti-inflammatory stuff, it was doing nothing for me.

“I was in a bad way. At this point, I took a look at the back of my throat. It was covered in white and yellow patches and it was just so raw and so painful and it was just… it was awful.”

Carl admits he “shouldn’t have let it” get to that point and when he did return to his doctor, he was immediately rushed off to A&E and was seen straight away.

The dad-of-three said: “I always remember the doctor audibly gasped when he saw the back of my throat. Because… it was in a bad way.

“They took some bloods, they put me on some pain medication and they gave me a load of antibiotics and I just waited for the bloods to come back.

“A couple of hours later, the doctor came back and sat me down and was like, ‘You’re really lucky you came into hospital when you did, you’re in the early stages of sepsis’.

“He basically told me that had I not come into hospital when I did, 12 hours, 18 hours later, I would have been arriving into hospital in the back of an ambulance.”

Carl explained how sepsis “never” crossed his mind and he had done the “typical Irish thing” of not wanting to bother people.

The 35-year-old added: “Little did I know that by not wanting to bother people, in the background, what was just a normal infection was actually turning into a very dangerous situation.

“Because with sepsis, you can get very sick, very, very quickly. If you don’t treat it quickly, you can go into organ failure and ultimately it can be fatal.”

‘I WAS LUCKY’

Carl urged his followers to look out for the signs of sepsis as he captioned his post: “The main point here is that I had NO CLUE that what started out as a relatively straightforward infection could turn into sepsis.

“I was lucky the doctor sent me to A&E when he did, and thankfully I was all good after a couple of days.

“I think the main point of the campaign being run at the moment is to make people aware of the risks and to always have sepsis at the back of your mind when you or someone you know has an infection.

“So hopefully chatting about this is of some use to a few of you.

“There’s lots of info on what to look out for with Sepsis on the HSE website below, but generally their advice is to familiarise yourself with the symptoms, and more than anything to trust your instincts if you, or someone you know is sick and you suspect they might have sepsis.”