Apprentice star issues warning to parents after baby rushed to hospital

Apprentice star issues warning to all parents after baby rushed to hospital.SOURCE: Thomas Skinner

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00:00Now I wanted to do this video to raise awareness about something that happened to me and my family today

00:07To my little twin my youngest daughter Roma who's been in hospital this afternoon

00:13Because of a thing called febrile convulsions. Now, I've never heard of it before

00:18I've done everything wrong that you shouldn't have done. So I thought I'd do a video

00:24To anyone any mums and dads out there if it happens to you

00:27You know what to do. Now febrile convulsions is when a baby

00:32Overheats. Yeah, when they've got a temperature, our little Roma she had a whooping cough earlier in the year

00:37She's got a little bit of a sore throat still playing about normal still wet nappies drinking loads of water, eating loads of fruit

00:42Went to the park with our family friends today while I was at work with my wife Sinead and other friends and

00:49Sinead went to Sainsbury's

00:52It's sort of early, I think half twelve, one o'clock today and

00:56As she was leaving the park, the Sainsbury's to go into the car park to get into the car

01:02As she got to the car, she noticed that Roma was having a fit, a full-on fit. She was shaking

01:08non-responsive, in a gaze

01:10Eyes rolling back, very red face and she didn't know what to do. Luckily there was a man sitting in his car next to her

01:16she banged on the window and

01:18Two lovely ladies who work in Sainsbury's and a nurse that happened to be shopping there. If you see this video

01:24Thank you very much for making my wife

01:27Feel safe and looking after her

01:30But she rung me. I left my yard. I thought she was going to say are you in the pub yet?

01:35but obviously it weren't that. I flew as quick as I can down to the Sainsbury's in Brentwood and

01:41I panicked. I see my little daughter Roma and she was

01:46Unresponsive, she was crying at this point, but she was like a rag doll, she was completely flopped

01:50So we rung an ambulance. Ambulance said two and a half hours wait

01:55So I said come on, babe. Let's go in the car. I'll just fly down there straight away

01:58So I did drive fast and I've already had a couple messages from people that know me on the way out to Romford

02:04Saying was your car stolen?

02:05Obviously, I thought, honestly I thought my daughter was dying. That's not a lie

02:09I looked over, the aircon on full, trying to cool her down

02:13Trying to keep her awake, which you're not meant to do

02:16Drove like a lunatic, got to Queen's Hospital, got in, see a doctor, and she spent the afternoon there. Now

02:24If your baby's got a little bit of a fever, especially with this hot weather

02:28And this happens to you, yeah?

02:31What you've got to do is you've got to get their temperature down. Lay them on their side

02:36Put their head slightly lower than their body

02:39Damp, cold cloth on their back, get their temperature down because this happens to

02:44This happens to

02:46One or two in a hundred children before they're six years old. Yeah, so it could happen to you

02:52You might never heard of it. I've never heard of it

02:55And the only way to get rid of it is to literally cool them down because babies can't regulate their heating

03:01Don't sweat as much as us and obviously they can't talk and can't tell you