A little girl was left fighting for her life after developing strep A - which turned her chickenpox into a flesh-eating infection, her mum says. Reign Passey, four, spent three weeks in hospital and had to undergo a lifesaving four-hour operation to remove the flesh-eating bacteria.
She has been left with a large scar on her right side - which she tells people she imaginatively got from "winning a fight against a crocodile". Leanne Passey, 31, says she feared she would lose her daughter - and now wants to warn other parents to watch out for symptoms.
The mum said: "It’s horrendous, you never expect it to happen to you until it does. I just want people to understand that it’s so serious. It wasn’t the chickenpox; it was the strep that got through the wound."
