Strictly star Iwan Thomas’s son Teddy has been rushed to hospital after breaking his arm after an accident.

The Olympic athlete, 51, who competed on the BBC dance show back in 2015, took to Instagram on Monday night as he shared an update on his eldest son’s health.

Posting snaps of Teddy, six, bandaged up with his cast on in the hospital bed, Iwan gushed over how proud he was of his son’s bravery.

He penned: ‘We are so immensely proud of Teddy. He has been through so much in his life already and now a broken arm that required surgery but yet he doesn’t moan at all, just gets on with it and shows nothing but kindness and love to others.

‘We can all learn so much from kids, their resilience and courage humbles me daily.

‘Thank you Teddy for teaching me so much and making me want to be a better person….Thanks for all the kind messages of support’.

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Strictly star Iwan Thomas’ son has been rushed to hospital after an accident as his dad gushes he’s ‘immensely proud’ after sharing snaps from A&E to Instagram on Monday

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The Olympic athlete, 51,  shared an update on his eldest son Teddy’s health after he broke his arm

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Teddy had a challenging start in life after he was born premature back in December 2018 and was taken straight to the intensive care unit at the Princess Anne hospital in Southampton after experiencing problems with his breathing.

He told fans at the time: ‘Yesterday was the worst day of my life looking at my everything with tubes everywhere in an incubator. He is now beginning to breathe better for himself without full aid of machines, I now know what true unconditional love is.’

Iwan later revealed his son had Group B Strep and this was the cause of his breathing difficulties.

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacteria that is carried by up to 40 per cent of adults, usually in the gut, and 25 per cent of women in their vaginas, without typically causing symptoms.

Infants can suffer early-onset GBS infections, which are much more common and occur when the infant is up to six days old, if they come into contact with the bacteria in the womb or during birth.

This causes them to develop rapid breathing problems and blood poisoning.

Speaking on This Morning the athlete said that he went into shock following the news that his son was in intensive care following breathing difficulties.

He explained: ‘I went home to have a shower, and got a phone call and they said please come back he’s in intensive care. I thought, is this a joke?’

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Posting snaps of Teddy, six, bandaged up with his cast on in the hospital bed, Iwan gushed over how proud he was of his son’s bravery

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Iwan also shared an X-ray of his son’s broken arm

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Iwan competed on BBC show Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, where he was partnered with Ola Jordan

Iwan Thomas reveals he didn’t know anything about Strep B

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Iwan also shares sons Bowie, 12 months and Dougie, three, with his partner, who he has never named

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The father said during the pregnancy no one had said anything about Strep B.

He continued: ‘We weren’t are of it at all, if we’d known we would have had the private test for it.’

Once he got back to the hospital Iwan revealed it was a tough time for him and his partner: ‘It was frightening, before you know it, there were tubes everywhere.’

After a day he said that Teddy was moved from nursery 4 and into nursery 1 intensive care units and doctors thought he was out of the worst of it.

But then his blood score was measured, which showed the level of virus in his blood.

Iwan continued: ‘It had gone from 14 to 120 – and they had to do a lumbar puncture to do a see if he had an infection in his spinal fluid or in his brain,

‘I went home that night and cried and then made the mistake of googling Strep B and read one in 10 babies die after treatment.’

Thankfully after treatment Teddy’s blood score went from 120 down to 6 and they could take him home.

But Iwan said that they still had to be vigilant, as doctors have said that Strep B can stay in the babies system for up to three months.

He continued: ‘We panic with everything. He had green poo and I thought it was Strep B coming back, but it was perfectly normal. We’re still ultra-paranoid though.’

Iwan also shares sons Bowie, 12 months and Dougie, three, with his partner, who he has never named.

WHAT IS A GROUP STREP B INFECTION?

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a bacteria that is carried by up to 40 per cent of adults, usually in the gut, and 25 per cent of women in their vaginas, without typically causing symptoms.

One in every 2,000 babies is diagnosed with the infection, according to figures from the NHS. It kills in around 10 per cent of cases.

The rate of GBS infection in newborn babies in the UK is 2.5x that of the US.

GBS infections usually affect newborns, occasionally adults and very rarely babies during pregnancy and before labour.

Infants can suffer early-onset GBS infections, which are much more common and occur when the infant is up to six days old, if they come into contact with the bacteria in the womb or during birth.

This causes them to develop rapid breathing problems and blood poisoning.

Late-onset GBS infections, which occur between seven days and up to three months, usually cause sepsis and meningitis.

Babies’ symptoms include:

Fever
Bluish-coloured skin
Seizures
Limpness or stiffness
Vomiting
Poor feeding
Diarrhoea
Fussing

Adults may experience infections of the:

Skin and soft tissues
Bones and joints
Lungs
Urinary tract

GBS infections are linked to stillbirths, premature deliveries and maternal infections.

The treatment for sufferers of any age is IV antibiotics.

Source: Group B Strep Support