Dad-of-three dies from sepsis 24 hours after going to bed with ‘flu’
A DAD-of-three went to bed with flu and died 24 hours later from sepsis.
Paul Mitton, 38, tried to sleep off the “bug” but his body shut down.
Wife Joanne, 41, found him “stone cold” with his limbs turned purple.
She called paramedics but he died in hospital in Preston.
In a tearful tribute, his widow, 41, said: “I gave him Beechams.
“We just presumed it was the flu but that Friday night, I was up quite a bit looking after him.
“At 8am on Saturday, I went into see him and he was stone cold.
“All his limbs were black — it was like a very deep purple.
“Because he was in so much pain, they put him into an induced coma.
“I went down to get a glass of water and when I came back my mother-in-law shouted at me that he was in cardiac arrest.
“They tried to resuscitate him. In the space of just hours, he’d left us.”
Joanne, of Preston, Lancs, is hoping to use Paul’s tragedy to raise awareness about sepsis – which kills around 37,000 Brits every year.
She added: “There’s not the awareness out there about sepsis.
“It kills more people than breast and testicular cancer does together.
“He was lovely, he did everything for his kids.
“He was a very family-orientated man. Everybody loved him.
Sepsis occurs after an infection as the body attacks its organs.
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