NHS trust admits failing two-year-old boy who died of sepsis just four days after doctors diagnosed him with ‘constipation’

An NHS hospital has admitted failures in its care towards a two-year-old boy who died from sepsis four days after doctors misdiagnosed him with constipation, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Hudson Cole Perrins tragically passed away on June 27, 2024, four days after his concerned father took him to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton with severe stomach pain. 

Doctors felt hardness in his stomach and concluded Hudson had constipation, giving him two suppositories and an enema before sending him home, despite not having gone to the toilet. 

However, Hudson’s parents took him back to hospital the next day when he began having seizures

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