Loose Women star rushed to A&E after "smeary" eye issue
Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha has revealed that she was rushed to hospital due to a medical issue with her eye.
Speaking on Friday's (February 9) version of the long-running ITV daytime chat show, Sawalha shared her experience with the panel.
"Last Thursday, I went to get my ears tested," she began to explain, "and wait for this guys, this is the first time ever I’ve been told I’ve got exceptional hearing."
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After heading home from her ear test, the original Loose Women panellist explained that, "Suddenly, [she] got this weird spidery thing go across [her] eye."
She continued: "Through the evening it got worse, and it got smeary, and I ended up reading covering up one eye, thought it was a bit weird and it would go in a minute. But it didn’t."
The following day, before the morning meeting for that day's version of Loose Women, she explained that she called the optician, who said: "Leave now and go straight to A&E."
After calling co-star Gloria Hunniford's eye surgeon friend, however, Sawalha was reassured that she didn't need to go to hospital immediately, but straight after the show, instead.
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Sawalha then shared her diagnosis: "The long and the short of it is, I’ve got an ageing eye! With everything else, the knees, the bladder, the hair, now it’s my eye!"
She added: "It is worrying, but it will be fine."
Sawalha is not the only Loose Women panellist to share a health update in the past few shows; Coleen Nolan recently updated viewers on a cancer scare.
She had previously announced she had been diagnosed with common skin cancer basal cell carcinoma, and offered fans a reassuring update and some advice: "And now I will not go out without SPF 50, even in the snow, even in the rain," she said.
Loose Women airs on weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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