Lucy Mecklenburgh has had to rush her son Roman into hospital after contracting a virus, almost a year to the day that she discovered him "blue in his cot".
The former TOWIE star assured fans he was fine and sometimes needed help to fight virus' after being sick when he was younger.
The former The Only Way Is Essex star had to rush the two-year-old to hospital last September and he was put on a ventilator in intensive care, something Lucy and partner Ryan Thomas described as “every parent’s worst nightmare”.
And now the 31-year-old mum-of-two has had to take little Roman to get urgent medical treatment once again after he picked up a virus in pre-school.
The little lad could be seen playing with his Peppa Pig toys on a hospital bed with the cubicle curtains drawn around him as his mum explained why he was in hospital again.
“He just needs some help fighting viruses,” she wrote. “Nebuliser, oxygen, steroids, antibiotics. Bless him.
“Wish I’d kept him off preschool and got him in the sunshine sooner!!”
In another snap posted to her Instagram Story, Lucy wrote that she was “meant to be on a beach” and asked: “Whyyy did I send him to preschool this week.”
The tot and his baby sister Lilah have been ill the last few days with Lucy showing the two with “coughs and colds all round” yesterday as they cuddled on the sofa together.
She kept little Roman amused with baking and icing cakes in the afternoon before he took a turn for the worse.
Since his horror health scare last year, the tot has needed daily medication and an inhaler to help him breathe properly.
The youngster has also been having regular check-ups to monitor his progress and received a new diagnosis earlier this year.
Recently, reality TV star Lucy explained that doctors had discovered that liquids were able to leak into Roman’s lungs.
As a result, the youngster must drink fluids that contain a thickening agent.
Doctors had discovered fluid has been entering Roman’s lungs whenever he has a drink. The little one had to have a special ‘videofluroscopy’ – a moving X-ray taken as a patient consumes fluid.
Lucy explained: “It was to check that there wasn’t any fluid when he drinks going down the wrong way and into his lungs.
“I honestly thought that it wasn’t going to show that, so I kept my days’ work in and he went with Ryan.
“I like to be at all the appointments and Ryan rang me and said it was showing there is fluid going into his lungs.”
Choking back tears, Lucy continued: “I feel really weird about it because I’m sad for Roman.”
Doctors said Roman must have a special thickener – which won’t get into his lungs – instead of thin fluids from now on.
This treatment could be something little Roman is on for “years” as experts try and figure out an alternative.
And in further heartbreak for Lucy and Ryan, their baby Lilah was rushed to hospital and placed on oxygen after she struggled to breathe last month after becoming "really poorly".
She shared a photo of her daughter laying in a cot with tubes attached to the tot and revealed she had been diagnosed with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus).
According to the NHS, RSV is a "very common virus" but can cause bronchiolitis, which little Lilah had developed.
After a few days in hospital, she was released "a little sleepy and still [with] a bad cough".
The gorgeous mum gave birth to her second child, Lilah, in May his year.
