Prince Edward, and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex are “worried sick” their newborn son is suffering from a dangerous allergy to cow’s milk.
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The couple have been anxiously waiting for the results of medical tests carried out on their eight-week old son James after he was rushed to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital with a swollen head last month.
A source told the Sunday Express: “They have both been worried sick about James. It’s been a long wait for the test results and Sophie hasn’t left the baby’s side. She’s been a bag of nerves.”
Sophie kept a bedside vigil for James when he was held in hospital overnight for initial tests and monitoring on January 24. A royal spokesperson said at the time: “James underwent more tests and it was found he had suffered a minor allergic reaction. It’s not life threatening and not serious.”
Between two and seven per cent of babies under one-years-old suffer from an allergy to cow’s milk, with symptoms including diarrhoea, vomiting, wheezing and a skin rash which can cause swelling of the head.
Although most cases are not life-threatening there have been a number of severe case which have resulted in deaths.
James, who is officially known as Viscount Severn, was born by Caesarean section on December 17, 2007, and is Edward and Sophie’s second child. Sophie – who married Edward in 1999 – suffered a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy in 2001 before falling pregnant again in 2003. She gave birth to the couple’s first child Lady Louise Windsor in November that year.
