A LOOSE Women star has revealed she was rushed to hospital in agony as she spoke out about the scary ordeal.
Kéllé Bryan appeared on Tuesday’s edition of the ITV show where she spoke about her ‘health nightmare’.
The 49-year-old told her Loose Women co-stars how she woke up in the middle of the night with severe pain after a normal day.
She explained: “I recognised it because I’d had a brief encounter with it two weeks before so I had a feeling, this is kidneys. I had that sense. It’s worse than labour, debilitating straight away.”
The star said how she knew it was serious and had to wake up her 12-year-old son for help.
She continued: “In the end I had to wake up one of my children, I felt really bad but I thought, I just can’t, this is an emergency. So I crawled up the stairs on my hands and my knees and I woke him up.
“I said ‘Mummy just needs your help, I need you to be really grown up and I need your help’ Then he said, ‘Right, what do I need to do?'”
The boy rang his father, asking him to ring the emergency services for Kéllé.
After being rushed to hospital it transpired that singer had a kidney stone lodged in her urethra.
Medics quickly treated the mum-of-two and brought her into emergency surgery.
Despite living a moderately healthy lifestyle, Kéllé said her overeating played a factor in the scare.
She said: “I overeat, which is weird. Too many tomatoes, too much spinach, so it’s really about eating well but everything in moderation.”
Kidney stones are a common and usually very painful condition.
They usually affect people between the ages of 30 to 60, the NHS says.
It adds: “They can be extremely painful, and can lead to kidney infections or the kidney not working properly if left untreated.”
How can you tell if you have a kidney stone?
Call NHS 111 or a GP if you have severe pain, a high temperature, an episode of shivering or shaking or blood in the urine.
Kidney stones form from chemicals in the urine.
Some are as small as a grain of sand and are passed in the urine without you noticing. Others can be as large as a pebble.
Causes of kidney stones are:
Many kidney stones can be treated at home by drinking lots of water, using pain relief and waiting for the stones to pass.
Large kidney stones need to be removed by surgery, in which various methods are used to break the kidney stone into smaller pieces so that they can pass in the urine.
Some surgeries are done under anaesthetic while others are not.
