Family's holiday nightmare as baby son is found 'grey' in bed

A Lancashire couple woke up to a living nightmare when they found their baby son 'grey and unresponsive' in bed while on holiday.

Tim and Rachel Millbank, from Skelmersdale, found 10-week-old Elliot seriously ill after the "cold" he had been suffering from turned out to be a potentially deadly case of pneumonia. The couple, who were in holiday in Cromer at the time, rushed their son to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where he spent 11 days before further tests revealed he was also suffering from a rare form of MRSA and sepsis, reports the Liverpool ECHO.

He needed specialist treatment and was sent to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge after being put in a medically-induced coma. Tim, 34, said they knew 'something wasn't right' when they found Elliot extremely poorly in bed.

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He said: "He was unresponsive, he was grey. We rushed him into the hospital and they whisked him out of my hands as soon as we walked through the door and took him straight to the emergency department, and the doctors jumped on him with needles. That was really scary. They stabilised him, but we were told he wasn't out of the woods yet.

"He wasn't responding to any of the antibiotics that were given to him and it came to light eventually he had MRSA."

Needing specialist treatment, Elliot was placed in a morphine-induced coma before being transferred to the intensive care unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital - more than 190 miles away from home. Tim said: "It was really hard. Looking back you wonder how you got through it, but you just do it because you have to. There were a few times we almost lost him.

“It was incredibly scary to see Elliot that