Lochlan McDonald, eight, was rushed in for emergency surgery to drain a 3.5cm pocket of bacteria from around his eye
A Scots mum is urging parents to ‘trust their gut’ after her school boy son was left just hours away from losing his eye following a major Strep A infection. Lochlan McDonald was rushed in for emergency surgery to drain a 3.5cm pocket of bacteria from around his eye at the Wishaw General Hospital just days before Christmas.
“But when he woke up the next day, his eye was swollen. Because I have an eye disease, I don’t mess around with them so I took him back to the doctors who said they thought it was conjunctivitis and I was to bring him back three days later if it hadn’t improved. “We went to the A&E at Wishaw General Hospital and within 10 minutes, one of the staff approached us and said the wait was 18 hours and they were going to try to get him up to the paediatrics ward. Five minutes later, we were up the stairs.
She added: “They took swabs during his surgery and the results came back that he had Strep A which caused the infection. He had a 3.5cm pocket at the back of his eye that was pushing on his optic nerve.” She said: “The LENS service is like a GP for your eyes. You call up and get triaged to get an appointment, normally on the same day. I hadn’t heard of it before and neither had most people I spoke to.
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