Mrs Hinch has spoken out after she had to rush her son to hospital where it was found he has Kawasaki disease. Sophie Hinchliffe, best known by her fans as Mrs Hinch for her cleaning tips, had to take her son Ronnie to hospital last week after he contracted a rare disease.
The 33 year old took to Instagram after apologising for being so quiet. She explained in a post everything that her family had been dealing with reports Birmingham Live.
The mum of two wrote: "FINALLY. “We can go home now Mummy”. Ron, you are SO brave, SO strong, SO loved and just beautifully unique darling boy. We have spent the past 10 days living what's felt like a real life nightmare. But I just wanted to thank you all for so many kind messages and update you all.
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"Ron’s temp spiked 40 at home, I phoned an ambulance. Ron was admitted and IV antibiotics started but NOTHING was working, in fact Ronnie deteriorated."
She continued: "The incredible doctors and nurses started every blood test and scan you can imagine. We paced rooms and corridors for days just waiting for an answer, a result … anything! Seeing Ron this way kicked me with a fear and desperation I’ve never felt in my whole life. What is happening to our son! Please tell me!
"After a couple of days , more symptoms appeared and results returned. Ron was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, something I had never heard of before.
"Kawasaki disease is a rare, non contagious disease that only affects around eight in every 100,000 children under the age of five in the UK. This disease causes swelling of the blood vessels throughout the body."
She explained that the disease can also affect the blood vessels supplying the heart muscle when not treated early enough. The main symptoms people should look out for include a persistent high temperature, body rash, swelling and then peeling of the hands and feet, red blistered lips, bloodshot eyes, strawberry tongue, inflamed sore throat and Swollen lymph glands.
Mrs Hinch stated: "This past week has shaken our whole world as a family. I’ve never felt a fear like it. But I need to say THANKYOU to the incredible team at Broomfield hospital, St Marys and Great Ormond street.
"Thank you for answering our prayers and making our Ronnie better, His little smile says it all so Thank you. Please if anyone reading this is a parent/carer of a child with Kawasaki disease Jamie and I would be so so grateful to hear from you and your story.
"I will do all that I can to help raise awareness of this disease that to this day still has no explained cause. OUR VERY SPECIAL RONNIE ROO IS COMING HOME and we are back together as a family at last xxx."
Sophie, who shares Ronnie and Lennie, two, with husband Jamie, says her gut feeling made her get the little lad checked out. She told her fans in an Instagram story: "Everything seems like fog right now
"Ron's temperature spiked to over 40C and his neck was swelling with limited head movement. I couldn't keep meds or fluids in him. We were taken to A&E and sent home with antibiotics and it just didn't feel right.
"My gut told me 'no'. So after phoning 111 we were taken back in and thankfully admitted." Sophie said Ronnie was then given IV antibiotics and that the family is now seeing a "really, really slow improvement", but that the toddler will be in for a "little longer yet."
She added: "Absolutely nothing prepares you for something like this. Being on a children's ward, seeing so many innocent little arms bandaged with cannulas. I just can't comprehend the whole thing."
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