DANNIELLA Westbrook has been told she has Strep A after she was rushed to hospital last night and "nearly died" with the flu.
The ex EastEnders star is still being treated in a London hospital and has been updating fans on her condition on Instagram.
She said today that she has a raging temperature and an infection.
Danniella shared a photo in her hospital gown which showed a cannula in her arm.
She wrote over the top: "Huge thank you to Whipps Cross and the NHS who have managed to get me stabilised.
"They informed me if I had left it until the morning I would have had a heart attack.
"The pressure on my chest was so bad."
The star said in a second post: "Septics (sic), Strep A and constant temperature of 39.8."
An outbreak of Strep A has swept the country, with medics looking into fresh measures to combat the spread.
Deaths have been seen across the country in London, Belfast and Cardiff.
It comes after Danniella admitted having blackouts earlier this week but said she was in two minds over whether to call an ambulance.
She told followers: "I keep passing out and occasionally having seizures… it’s scaring the hell outta me."
In a video recorded from bed yesterday the star asked followers for their help.
She said: "I have come on to get some advice from people because I keep passing out and every now and again I am having seizures.
“I keep getting blackness over this side of my face. I’m sweating hot, burning up but I am freezing cold. And my throat is so bad.
“I can’t get anything to go down. I just keep crying, you know when you are that ill and you just keep crying. I want my mum and I am 49.
“I don’t know what to do if I should ring an ambulance or not. I don’t want to waste people’s time.”
Danniella, who was Sam Mitchell in EastEnders and appeared in 2016's Celebrity Big Brother said she'd been in excruciating discomfort in recent weeks.
