Lucy Mecklenburgh has revealed why her son Roman was treated in intensive care.
The former The Only Way Is Essex star says the 18-month-old went to A&E before his terrifying dash to ICU as he was suffering with a viral induced wheeze.
The common condition happens when the tubes carrying air to the lungs become irritated and inflamed by a cough, cold or chest infection.
In an Instagram post on Sunday Lucy gave her followers more details about the family's terrifying ordeal after revealing on Thursday that her son with former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas had spent the past week in intensive care.
Roman is now home and adjusting to using an inhaler twice a day.
Lucy gave more detail after being asked by other worried parents for signs to look out for.
She said: "So many of you have asked really nicely in my DM's to please share what was wrong with Roman and the signs to look out for to prevent this happening to your babies/children and what I did when I found him.
"I completely understand and I don't want any parents to worry every night.
"Roman had a viral induced wheeze so a couple of times in the last two months he wakes up with a slight cold in the morning, he has a little wheeze by lunch time and by dinner time we are in A&E as he is struggling to breathe."
"We can see his chest is sucking in and working really hard. We are usually out by the morning after the nebuliser, oxygen and steroids and monitoring all night."
Explaining the time she had to rush Roman into intensive care she told her followers that she had found him 'blue, grey, floppy' and slipping in and out of consciousness.
"This time, however, he had a little wheeze at lunch time but no wheeze before bed and he seemed completely fine other than a snotty nose," she recalled.
"I still gave him two puffs of his inhaler before bed just in case.
'When I heard very quiet cries of distress at around 4am I went into his room. He was blue, grey, floppy when I picked him up, in and out of consciousness and sick in his mouth.
"I called 999 cleared his mouth and gave him his inhaler. I wish I could say I stayed calm but I really didn't."
