A Carluke schoolboy was left hours from losing his eye following a major Strep A infection and now his mum is warning other parents to ‘trust their gut’.
Lochlan McDonald needed emergency surgery to drain a 3.5cm pocket of bacteria from around his eye at the Wishaw General Hospital days before Christmas.
The eight-year-old had preseptal cellulitis which was putting pressure on his optic nerve and causing severe swelling around the socket, the Daily Record reports.
