Olivia Bowen calls ambulance after suffering from mastitis as she reveals she suffers from crippling health anxiety following the ‘traumatic’ birth of daughter Siena

Olivia Bowen has revealed she called an ambulance to her home after developing mastitis on Monday.

The painful yet common condition occurs when the breast becomes hot, swollen and painful, most likely due to a blocked milk duct. 

It is most common in women who are breastfeeding and and does not usually need medical treatment, nor is it contagious, according to the NHS.

Taking to Instagram, the former Love Island star, 30, shared a picture of herself lying in bed as she wrote she ‘thought I was gonna pass out’ as she was up all night in pain.

She explained that she called paramedics after she started ‘spiralling’ due to her health anxiety. 

Olivia wrote: ‘Ever since Siena’s birth I have quite bad health anxiety so I literally spiralled last night. Thank you to the paramedics that came to help you guys are angels, just incredible.’

She also thanked her husband Alex, who she met on the hit ITV show in 2016, and also shares son Abel, three, and daughter Siena, five months.

‘Alex has gone to get my antibiotics bless his heart up all night with me. Even got the kids all awake and ready to get in the car to drive me to A&E.’

Aside from taking antibiotics, Olivia shared that treatment advise includes continuing to feed from the infected breast, placing frozen cabbage leaves over the breast and using a cold compress. 

The reality star has been very open about her health anxiety after ‘nearly dying’ following Siena’s birth.

Speaking in October on her ITV2 reality show Olivia & Alex: Parenthood, she broke down in tears as she revealed her bladder fell into her cervix before hemorrhaging after giving birth. 

Viewers saw Olivia attempting a home birth with a birthing pool before she began to struggle so much with the pain that an ambulance is called to take her to hospital.

She said: ‘We had a plan but it didn’t come off. I felt something that didn’t feel right. I was only 5cm dilated after 10 hours but I was determined to push through, I then felt a lump in my vagina and we made the decision to go to hospital.

‘My bladder had fallen down into the cervix and was obstructing the baby, so there was no possible way I could give birth naturally.

‘So, we had to make the decision for a c-section. Thankfully, she came out crying, it was incredible as they gave me Siena.

‘But then I felt dizzy and out of control and the nurse started calling out how much blood I was losing.

‘It was so scary they were shouting on the tannoy ‘major haemorrhage’, I felt sick and dizzy, I had to give Siena to Alex as I couldn’t hold onto her anymore feeling the blood drain out of me.

‘We were so scared. The doctors were incredible the NHS was amazing, I literally feel that they saved my life.’

The couple revealed in March that she and Alex had been expecting twins, but sadly lost one of their babies eight weeks into the pregnancy. 

Olivia broke down in tears on Loose Women as she recalled her excitement at finding out they were having twins just before Christmas, when they attended an early six week scan.

She said: ‘We had that two week period we were looking at cars, looking at car seats, planning bedrooms… and something happened called vanishing twin syndrome.’

She explained: ‘One of the babies just basically didn’t have a heartbeat but I’d had no symptoms, no pain, no bleeding to tell me that was what we were walking into. We were floored, we were expecting to have these two little babies.’