BBC broadcaster John Simpson was left fighting for his life after a horrific allergic reaction.
The 72-year-old foreign correspondent suffered a series of medical problems, beginning with him feeling unwell at his home, his wife has revealed.
After calling a doctor, he was rushed to hospital and found to be suffering from food poisoning and severe dehydration.
According to the Mail on Sunday , those problems then combined with routine medication he was taking at the time, and resulted in an allergic reaction and severe kidney problems.
His condition deteriorated quickly, and he was rushed into intensive care at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital on September 8.
Describing the terrifying time, his wife Dee Kruger described it as "the perfect storm" and told the newspaper: "There was a whole chain of events that meant there was an overreaction on the kidney side which made him seriously ill.
"From being mildly unwell the shocking thing was how, in the space of hours, his body went into a kind of acute shock. Suddenly these guys in the intensive care unit at the Radcliffe were fighting for his life."
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