Animal lover suffers life-threatening allergic reaction after being bitten by a hamster

Nathan Halliday went into a deadly anaphylactic daze aft Mochi, his Syrian hamster, had a seizure and clamped down connected his hand

A dada was astir killed by his favored hamster erstwhile its wound triggered a life-threatening allergic reaction.

Nathan Halliday, 34, went into a deadly anaphylactic daze aft Mochi, his Syrian hamster, had a seizure and clamped down connected his hand.

Minutes aft the bite, Nathan recovered helium was incapable to respire arsenic his full assemblage became swollen and covered successful hives. His oxygen levels plummeted and his spouse dialled 999.

He was rushed to infirmary by ambulance wherever helium was fixed 2 shots of adrenaline, an antihistamine and enactment connected oxygen.

Nathan, from Kirkby, Merseyside, said: “It was perfectly horrendous particularly arsenic I had nary thought a hamster wound could origin thing similar this. My full assemblage felt swollen and my pharynx wounded - I couldn't adjacent talk and it was similar breathing done a straw. I was covered successful hives.

“Nobody had ever heard of what had happened before. It amused the doctors but they were precise nonrecreational astir it. They gave maine epi pens for the adjacent clip a hamster wants to instrumentality maine on. All jokes aside, the acquisition was truly precise scary.”

Anaphylactic daze from hamster bites is precise uncommon but successful 2007, a antheral from Redditch, Worcs, died aft being bitten.

Nathan had conscionable finished his beverage with spouse Rebecca Kidd erstwhile they noticed Mochi, who was a twelvemonth and 8 months old, was looking frail.

Nathan's girl Evelyn, three, had already said her goodbyes to the household favored earlier that evening.

Nathan, a lawman manager of a children's home, said: “I sat with Mochi successful my arms for an hr and a fractional portion she slept. She rested her hands connected my thumb and abruptly she spot close done my hand.

“She clamped down and wouldn't fto go, I deliberation from having a seizure, and my spouse Rebecca had to pry her disconnected me.

“Once we'd got her off, she took a mates of breaths and died. Just a mates of minutes afterwards, I started to get a spot itchy.”

Nathan is asthmatic and took a mates of puffs of his inhaler earlier helium realised thing was earnestly wrong.

He said: “We’ve got an oxygen metre and the levels had dropped to 84 per cent. It was similar my full assemblage had swollen and was each choky truthful we dialled 999.

“I couldn’t breathe. My pharynx had swollen and I was covered successful hives connected my back, thorax and arms.

“I’ve been bitten by hamsters successful the past and thing similar this has ever happened. It was rather scary.”

The ambulance arrived wrong 4 minutes and Nathan was rushed to Aintree University Hospital wherever helium was enactment connected oxygen and had 2 shots of adrenaline.

He was besides fixed an antihistamine and a tetanus jab - and gave the doctors a bully laugh.

Nathan said 1 of the paramedics who treated him dubbed him ‘Freddie Starr’ - aft the comedian who was famously accused of eating a hamster.

Nathan, who is allergic to horses and suffers from hay fever, said: “I was exhausted for the adjacent 2 days and my close limb couldn’t halt shaking.

“I was decidedly the dullest feline successful large trauma. I did effort to alteration the communicative to a scorpion but I deliberation the paramedics preferred hamster.

“One of the paramedics asked maine if I was Freddie Starr.

“Mochi is present successful a fancy cracker container successful the plot - I don't blasted her.

“We rescue hamsters from radical who different wouldn’t privation them and I'd ne'er accidental nary to different one.”

Nathan is present informing others to beryllium alert of the symptoms of anaphylactic daze and to cognize erstwhile to dial 999.

The symptoms include: Swelling of your pharynx and tongue; Difficulty breathing oregon breathing precise fast; Difficulty swallowing, tightness successful your pharynx oregon a hoarse voice; Wheezing, coughing oregon noisy breathing.