This Morning has received hundreds of complaints from viewers after Cherry Healey gave out ‘wrong information’ about UTIs. The TV presenter appeared on the show last week and revealed her own personal experience of suffering from a urine infection, which left her hospitalised for five days when she left it untreated. She was on the ITV daytime show alongside Senior Urologist Jean McDonald to highlight the dangers of ignoring possible symptoms of UTIs, as they can also affect your bladder and kidneys and leave you with permanent damage.
Detailing what happened to her, 43-year-old Cherry said: “I woke up on Thursday and it was definitely there [a UTI]. But I was a bridesmaid – I was actually maid of honour at my best friend’s wedding - and I was going straight from filming to her wedding in the countryside. It’s in the middle of nowhere.
There’s no way I could get to a doctor.” So instead Cherry chose to grin and bear it to get through her best friend’s big day and said she was “just drinking cranberry juice and taking painkillers”. She continued: “I could feel my body getting sicker and sicker.
I went through the Friday night of celebrations and then by Saturday at the wedding, I just felt horrendous. “I had a blanket wrapped around me the whole wedding pretty much, because I was shaking uncontrollably because I had a fever. What happened was it had moved up to my kidneys.
I went to A&E the next day and they just couldn’t work out what was going on..
