Lily Allen ‘back in hospital with blood-poisoning’

Days after losing her unborn baby in a miscarriage, pop star Lily Allen is reported to be back in hospital, receiving emergency treatment for blood poisoning - or septicaemia.

Septicaemia, a bacterial infection of the blood, can be life-threatening if not caught early.

It is a risk among people whose immune system has been weakened by another infection. Following a miscarriage, it can be triggered if any foetal tissue is left inside the mother's body and becomes infected.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Allen, 25, was taken by ambulance on Friday to hospital in Gloucestershire. She had been staying in the Cotswolds, recovering with her boyfriend, builder Sam Cooper, from last weekend's miscarriage.

The paper quotes a family friend saying: "Lily had been recuperating at home with Sam and her family, but she has been taken back to hospital and is getting the best care possible at the moment.

"Everyone is extremely concerned, but she is in the best place and luckily she was admitted quickly."

It is not clear whether Allen and Cooper are already installed in the new home she recently bought - Old Overtown House in the Cotswolds hamlet of Overtown - or whether they were staying with her father, actor Keith Allen, who lives nearby.

Before being readmitted to hospital, Lily Allen had used Twitter to thank the many fans who have written with messages of support and sympathy following news of the miscarriage.

"I'm still very sick but the messages are helping me to be stronger," she wrote. "Thank you x x."

The miscarriage was Allen's second. She previously lost a baby in 2008 when she was in a relationship with the Chemical Brothers' DJ Ed Simons. ·