Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden reveals sepsis battle throughout chemotherapy

Strictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden has revealed she contracted sepsis after her first spherical of chemotherapy earlier this month. 

The 33-year-old was identified with stage three breast most cancers in May and underwent a mastectomy.

In July, the dancer from Caerphilly, South Wales, instructed followers she had acquired a second prognosis of “another type of cancer”.

The dancer, who has additionally offered a BBC documentary on her battle with Crohn’s illness, has now opened up about her ordeal with sepsis that occurred simply two days after beginning chemotherapy.

“I wasn’t feeling too bad that day, just sick, but a couple of hours later I started having a temperature of 37.7C,” she instructed Hello! Magazine.

“At the time, I didn’t realise that having a temperature of 37.5C or above could be fatal for a chemo patient. I just thought it was my reaction to chemo, but as it turned out, I had already got an infection.”

Over the following day, she improved.

“The Strictly producers were checking in on me, and I was sending videos of me on my walk. I couldn’t believe how good I was feeling.”

But she rapidly deteriorated. Her mom Gillian mentioned: “Amy’s symptoms got worse very, very quickly. At one point she felt ok, then suddenly she felt very ill – it happened in an instant.”

“She went to stand, then just sort of crumpled back on to the settee.”

Amy added: “I felt freezing cold but I was all clammy and shaking. My mum and dad rang my red card [which provides the chemotherapy team’s contact details and current treatment information] and they said to hang up and ring the ambulance.”

She was rushed to hospital the place she was handled in an intensive care unit (ICU) for sepsis and dangerously low strain.

After altering the kind of antibiotic, Amy recovered however her reminiscence of the interval stays hazy.

“The doctors and nurses were telling me I had sepsis and that it was life-threatening but I wasn’t taking it in. I didn’t become properly aware until later. I told my dad: ‘I’ve got sepsis’ and he said: ‘I know!’.”

She has since been capable of proceed with chemotherapy.

Sepsis is a life-threatening response to an an infection which occurs when somebody’s immune system overreacts to an an infection and begins to wreck their physique’s personal tissues and organs.

Dowden, who married fellow skilled dancer Ben Jones in July final yr, beforehand mentioned she had discovered a lump in her breast the day earlier than she deliberate to go on her belated honeymoon this yr.

She joined BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, and has had movie star companions together with comic Brian Conley, Red Dwarf’s Danny John-Jules and McFly’s Tom Fletcher.

According to experiences, Dowden won’t be partnered with a celeb for the upcoming sequence of Strictly Come Dancing whereas she undergoes therapy.