The growing crisis of long sepsis. It leaves sufferers with fatigue and brain fog - so when will the NHS start treating it properly?

The growing crisis of long sepsis. It leaves sufferers with fatigue and brain fog - so when will the NHS start treating it properly? By Lucy Elkins Published: 06:56 EDT, 9 July 2024 | Updated: 08:09 EDT, 9 July 2024 e-mail View comments Fitness instructor and mother of three Katie Tinkler remembers calling, 'See you later', to her 16-year-old daughter, Isobel, as she was stretchered into an ambulance — having collapsed on the bathroom floor at home one Saturday morning. But Katie wouldn't make it home later, nor return in time to shepherd Isobel through her GCSEs the following week.

In fact, soon after she was blue-lighted to hospital, Katie was put into an induced coma, from which she wouldn't emerge for three weeks. All that time, her life hung in the balance as her body battled the effects of sepsis — a life-threatening condition that occurs when the immune system overreacts to an infection; in Katie's case, pneumonia . Katie Tinkler developed sepsis seven years ago and is still living with the effects Super-fit Katie was rushed to hospital where she was put into an induced coma, from which she wouldn't emerge for three weeks Four days before her collapse, 'superfit' Katie, who had been teaching 13 fitness classes a week, visited her GP with 'shivering, bad muscle aches and just a general feeling of being unwell'.

'The GP told me to go home and drink Lucozade,' she says and, reassured, she did. It's advice she wishes she'd ignored. Not only as she might then have avoid.