Man makes ‘miracle’ recovery from sepsis caused by a roast dinner

Amin went to A&E with suspected food poisoning in February and was told that he was infected with the bacteria campylobacter, the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK.

It causes sickness, diarrhoea and fever, and symptoms begin within a few hours or days of eating infected food.

It usually improves when patients rest and replace fluids, but can lead to sepsis in rare cases.

Amin was soon rushed to the resuscitation room where his blood pH fell dangerously low and he suffered a cardiac arrest.

Medics warned Amin’s family, including daughter Parisha Bains, that he had developed sepsis and may only have hours to live.

She said: “We were told he had gone into sepsis and multi-organ failure. Most of his critical organs had shut down. But he made it through the night and that wasn’t expected.

“It felt like our world had fallen apart. Nothing prepares you for hearing that the person you love may not make it through the day.”

Bains said it is “nothing short of a miracle” that the former subpostmaster turned businessman is still alive.

“We laugh and joke that he’s like a cat with nine lives,” she remarked.

A fundraiser for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Charity created by the family for the intensive care unit has raised £37,000 so far.

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