Lawrence Pahollaria was also diagnosed with Salmonella Heidelberg after visiting Sindbad Aqua Park Hotel in Hurghada with tour operator Easy Jet. His family suffered from gastric symptoms while they were on holiday, but after returning home to north London - Lawrence started vomiting and had diarrhoea. The 12-year-old became so ill he was taken to A&E following a GP consultation, and was then diagnosed with sepsis and salmonella.
Lawrence was given intravenous antibiotics and fluids and spent five days back and forth to hospital, with one overnight stay. His mum Trudi Law said finding out that Lawrence had been diagnosed with sepsis after the holiday left her "absolutely terrified". The 54-year-old said: "It was clear pretty quickly that Lawrence was far more than just a tummy bug.
"It was so frightening, but we realised we had to get him to a hospital. "We knew Lawrence was poorly but we were absolutely terrified when we were told he had sepsis. "I was frantic and was struggling not to assume the very worst.
" "We're all just grateful we came out of this in one piece and given what happened to Lawrence, we know we're lucky and it could have been worse." Lawrence was diagnosed with sepsis and salmonella after his holiday (Image: Irwin Mitchell / SWNS) Lawrence arrived at the resort on July 20 2023 with mum Trudi, dad Fatmir and sister Florianna, 13, for a two-week holiday. But on day four of the stay, Florianna and Trudi started to become unwell with with vomiting, stomach pai.