Harry Redknapp shares update on wife’s ‘dangerous’ health ordeal after hospitalisation

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Redknapp opened up about wife Sandra’s health following her hospitalisation with a life-threatening illness

Harry Redknapp has reflected on the terrifying, potentially fatal experience his wife endured after developing a kidney infection. In 2018, Sandra was rushed to hospital after falling ill while Harry was away on business.

At that point, neither of them understood the root of her sickness, but subsequent tests disclosed she was fighting sepsis – a severe and potentially fatal response to an infection.

As per the NHS, sepsis can progress rapidly and necessitates immediate treatment in hospital.

Fortunately, Sandra received timely medical care with the help of her family, which may have been life-saving. According to The UK Sepsis Trust, the condition impacts around 245,000 individuals in the UK annually and results in roughly 48,000 deaths.

If not detected early and treated swiftly, it can lead to shock, multiple organ failure and death.

While some patients also endure long-term effects post-treatment, Harry stated his wife of 59 years is thankfully “all good” and “keeping busy”.

“All good, touch wood, yeah we’re all okay,” he informed us at Shoreditch’s Ruffians Barber Shop for World Cuts, a football-themed event from Viagogo and Ruffian.

“I got involved with a sepsis charity [to raise awareness]. It’s quite a scary illness, more people died with sepsis last year than three other major cancers, you’d never believe it. It’s scary.

“We didn’t really know what she had, it’s only when we rushed her to the hospital and she was getting very ill,” the 79-year-old added.

“I was in London at the time, I was managing, so I wasn’t coming home that night and my family rushed her up to the hospital and it’s lucky [they] did otherwise, if she hadn’t had gone in that night, it could’ve been too late, that’s how dangerous it is,” he added.

The NHS says common symptoms of sepsis in adults include:

• Confusion or slurred speech
• Uncontrollable shivering
• Muscle pain
• Difficulty breathing
• Blue, pale, grey or blotchy skin, lips or tongue – on black or brown skin this may be easier to see on the palms of the hands or soles of the feet
• A high or low temperature – a high temperature is less common in older adults
• Not peeing all day or peeing very little in the past 18 hours

It is important to seek medical help if you believe you are experiencing any symptoms of sepsis.

Meanwhile, Harry also shared an update on his own wellbeing following his recent hearing loss diagnosis.

The ex-football boss confessed he regularly fails to remember to put in his hearing aids, though insisted that all was well.

Looking back on how the diagnosis caught him off guard, he added: “I didn’t even think I had a problem until I went for a hearing test and then they said, ‘Oh you’re way down’, so that’s why I got them really.”

The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestant has previously branded his hearing troubles as “dangerous”, citing episodes like inadvertently leaving his indicators flashing while driving.

Speaking with his wife on This Morning earlier this year, he revealed: “It could’ve caused accidents.”