Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital on Wednesday night as a result of the withdrawal symptoms she's suffering from since giving up drugs, according to reports. The singer became dangerously dehydrated while going cold turkey and was taken to the private London Clinic centre where she was put on a drip.

 

Amy's father, Mitch (who can't seem to stop talking to the press), had previously told The Sun that Amy was suffering from "horrific" withdrawal symptoms. He found the time to speak to The sun again yesterday and said,

 

"Amy is OK. She is making progress but will be in rehab for a long time."

 

But a source close to the London Clinic said she didn't look too hot...

 

"Amy was looking very pale and thin. She looked ropey and exhausted. Let's hope she hasn't taken a turn for the worse."

 

We are glad to hear that she's given up drugs and we hope she makes a speedy recovery.

“Going on a drip is a sign that things have got pretty bad. “Crack is notoriously difficult to get off.”

"Horrific" withdrawal symptoms? Makes you think of Ewan Mcgregor in 'Trainspotting' or Harrison Ford after he drinks the blood in 'Temple Of Doom'. Not nice!

Edited August 4, 200816 yr by davidobowie!

she is well now ;)

 

"Amy was looking very pale and thin. She looked ropey and exhausted."

 

 

 

Really? No sh*t!

 

Hehe, I've seen Trainspotting and I think it's the single greatest film in the world for expressing exactly WHY not to take heroin (despite some stupid Daily Mail types that thought it glamorised it - t****)

 

Go beat the crack girl!

What's up with those bumps on Amy Winehouse's face? The singer has been diagnosed with impetigo, her spokesman confirms to PEOPLE.

 

It's a bacterial skin infection that causes pimple-like lumps – and is "is highly contagious, and scratching or touching the sores is likely to spread the infection to other parts of the body as well as to other people," according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site.

 

And yes, Winehouse, 24, had been prescribed drugs ... in the form of antibiotics.

 

As for how the singer's feeling, "She's fine," a pal tells PEOPLE. "She's not hiding away. She's never been one to care what people think."

 

What's up with those bumps on Amy Winehouse's face? The singer has been diagnosed with impetigo, her spokesman confirms to PEOPLE.

 

It's a bacterial skin infection that causes pimple-like lumps – and is "is highly contagious, and scratching or touching the sores is likely to spread the infection to other parts of the body as well as to other people," according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site.

 

And yes, Winehouse, 24, had been prescribed drugs ... in the form of antibiotics.

 

As for how the singer's feeling, "She's fine," a pal tells PEOPLE. "She's not hiding away. She's never been one to care what people think."

 

Impetigo? Isn't that what Michael Jackson has said contributed to his sudden skin colour change?

 

Norma

 

Personally - I didn't think there was anything wrong with Amy's skin - she looks perfectly OK to me!

 

 

 

Impetigo? Isn't that what Michael Jackson has said contributed to his sudden skin colour change?

 

Norma

 

Personally - I didn't think there was anything wrong with Amy's skin - she looks perfectly OK to me!

I shouldn't think so. I had to have something for impetigo before, I had a cut on my arm and it got infected. I wouldn't exactly call it a disease, it's just when you get a cut infected, or at least that what I think it was - this was about 6 years ago that I had it. :lol:

Impetigo is NOT what Micheal Jackson had! LOL

 

I had it once - it was hurendous - spreads quick urgh its horrid - poor Amy

 

it will go after about 2 weeks

 

get well soon Amy

Ah yeah, my mum's had this. Not serious in the slightest, just unsightly and very contagious :heehee:

My brother had so much time off school with this... <_< She'll be fine though, should be ok in a couple of weeks.

When will she be out on her rehab program??

Impetigo is NOT what Micheal Jackson had! LOL

 

Hi Craigy! I didn't say its what Michael Jackson had - I said it was what he claimed to have (and he definitely did claim it at some point).

 

By the way - we're missing you on the TT forum!

 

Norma

He claimed he had vitiligo, not impetigo.

He claimed he had vitiligo, not impetigo.

 

Cheers! Thats the one! Thanks Soapy! They both end in 'igo' though so I was close :lol: :lol:

 

Norma

Edited March 7, 200817 yr by Norma_Snockers

Hope she gets better soon :)

Get well soon Amzie!xx

 

At first I thought the reason she has recently become a recluse is because of how "unsightly" she had become, but now I realize it's because of how highly contagious it is.

Amy Winehouse taken to hospital

Source: bbc.co.uk

 

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Winehouse was at one of her homes in London when she became unwell

 

Singer Amy Winehouse has been taken to hospital for tests after fainting in London, her spokesman has confirmed.

 

She was "doing admin" when she became unwell at her home on Monday afternoon but "quickly recovered", he added.

 

Her manager's assistant was able to stop her falling and Winehouse's father, Mitch, escorted her to hospital "as a precaution", the spokesman said.

 

Doctors are unsure as to the cause of the incident and the star may be kept in hospital overnight for observation.

 

The 24-year-old had been signing autographs for Canadian fans who had been waiting outside her house all day, her spokesman said.

 

She is being treated at the London Clinic in Marylebone.

 

'Serious problems'

 

There have long been concerns about Winehouse's health.

 

Last year, she was admitted to a hospital in London suffering from "severe exhaustion", and there were reports she was being treated in a rehabilitation clinic.

 

And following a succession of cancelled gigs, the 24-year-old's father spoke out about her drug use.

 

Mitch Winehouse told BBC Radio 5 Live his daughter and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil had "serious problems" but said neither was in "imminent danger of death".

 

Police confirmed in May that Winehouse would not face charges over a video that purported to show her smoking a crack cocaine pipe.

 

Concert plans

 

Earlier this year the singer was cautioned by police after admitting a common assault following an incident in Camden, north London.

 

Last week it was confirmed Winehouse had played an exclusive concert at an art gallery in Moscow for Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.

 

And later this month she is due to be on the bill in London's Hyde Park, at a gig marking the 90th birthday of former South African president Nelson Mandela.

 

The singer's hits include Rehab - including the refrain "they tried to make me go to rehab/ I said no, no, no" - and Back to Black, the title track from her current album.

 

Exlusive: Amy Winehouse has emphysema and could be in wheelchair

By Louise Ford 22/06/2008

Daily Mirror.co.uk

 

Frail Amy Winehouse has been struck down by the deadly lung condition emphysema - and she could be in a wheelchair within a MONTH if she doesn't stop smoking crack cocaine, her dad revealed last night.

 

Doctors have also told the star, 24 - rushed to hospital after having a fit this week - that she will need a permanent oxygen mask to survive unless she takes their advice.

 

In an emotional interview, her devastated father Mitch told the Sunday Mirror how watching his daughter deteriorate reminded him of his own 78-year-old mother struggling for breath on an aspirator before she died of lung cancer.

 

Worried dad Mitch said: "To think this could be my beautiful 24-year-old daughter's life is preposterous. But if drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it. But the doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her. It's been a tough week."

 

Mitch also told of his fears as Amy underwent tests after a mystery lump was found on her chest during scans at private London hospital The Clinic.

He said: "After lots of tests they found a lump in Amy's chest. A scan has shown it's not cancerous and there are no traces of cancer in her blood. But they might need to double check.

"There is a chance she might need a biopsy. If they need to cut the lump out then that will mean a massive and painful operation and a lot of recuperation.

 

At the moment that doesn't look likely.

 

"When they told me she had a lump, I was very, very worried. At times Amy seems nervous about it but she doesn't panic until something's 100 per cent."

 

Ex-cabbie Mitch revealed how he recognised "warning signs" that Amy would have a seizure after noticing her eyes were squinting at a family lunch last Sunday. Then at 4pm on Monday, he rushed the troubled star to hospital in the back of his cab after she collapsed in a fit at her home in Camden, North London. She has suffered two seizures in the past year, including one last August when she was hospitalised after a huge drugs binge.

Mitch added: "When I saw her last Sunday lunch at her favourite Spanish bar in Camden she was just picking at her tapas and salad. Her eyes kept on squinting and flickering and I said to her then how that had happened the last time she had a seizure. I even called her manager Ray to tell him. Amy just brushed it off and said she had a headache.

But the next day she collapsed. I got a call when I was out for lunch. An ambulance came but she sent it away.

"But she wanted to go to hospital this time and she could walk so I put her in the back of the cab. She didn't talk much and I could see her in the mirror falling asleep.

"When we got to the hospital a room was ready. Several doctors came in and checked to make sure she didn't need any emergency treatment. They operaput her on a drip straight away because she was dehydrated. She said, 'Don't worry about me, Dad. I know I've got to stop taking drugs now'. At the hospital we found she'd been awake for 48 hours. We can only speculate she'd been taking drugs all that time. She curled up in bed and went to sleep. In between tests, she slept for almost three days solid."

 

The lung-damage caused by emphysema is irreversible and can lead some sufferers to become dependent on oxygen supplies. Skeletal Amy was also suffering from irregular heartbeats when admitted.

 

Terrified she risks losing her life, she has now vowed to stay clean and started a drug replacement programme on Tuesday. Mitch said: "The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid - she wouldn't have been able to breathe.

"She's got emphysema. It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.

"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 per cent lung capacity."

 

Amy's plight has brought back painful memories for Mitch of the way his mum died. Cynthia Winehouse, a singer who dated jazz legend Ronnie Scott, was on a aspirator before she died in 2006.

Amy idolised Cynthia, and has her name tattooed on her right arm.

 

Mitch added: "Amy's now had every scan in the book - for her brain, on her lungs, her heart. She's having tests every day to monitor her heart rate. When she went into hospital she had irregular heartbeats. I was messing around and picked up a stethoscope and listened to her chest myself. It was all over the place. But they've now sorted that out with medication.

 

That was likely to have been the drugs. But one step back, and it could be fatal."

 

Mitch is now terrified that Amy - who is being watched by a nurse 24 hours a day and is expected to be in hospital for another week - will discharge herself as soon as she feels better and will fall straight back into her old ways. He has called for Amy's drug dealers and circle of drug addict pals included troubled rocker

 

Pete Doherty - to stay away from her. He said: "I'm saying to those drug dealers, and they know who they are, if they are supplying crack to Amy, then they've got to take responsibility. I don't want her hanging out with her mates like Pete Doherty either.

 

"What hope does she have if people are taking drugs around her? Already Amy says she feels better and wants to leave hospital and that worries me.

 

She says she's bored so I've got a whole shopping list of things... sweets, chocolates, puzzle books, nighties." Mitch say Amy, who has a history of bulimia, has been eating well for the first time in years. He revealed: "She's been eating like a horse. I've been amazed.

For lunch she ordered a baked potato with tuna, cheese, beans, salad and soup. She gobbled it all down and then ate mine. So she's going in the right direction.

 

"But she feels she's ready to go out, and she's not. She's put on weight, her skin is clear, she's lucid, she's my beautiful Amy. But in the back of that cab I could see she was worried and frightened. It's up to her, if she wants to die in three months then she leaves and goes back to drugs. Hopefully this time she won't."

 

Mitch has visited Amy's husband Blake Fielder-Civil three times in jail, where he is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to GBH and conspiring to pervert justice.

Blake, 26, is calling Amy every day "to help her stay strong".

Mitch said: "Blake apologised to me for getting Amy into drugs and says he's going to try and put it right. Blake was clean when I saw him but he's told me he wants to go into rehab. We've organised it so that as soon as he's out, that happens. He wants to go from zero to hero. It's very hard for him being in prison, but at least he's been trying.

 

"He wants me to live with Amy in her house in Camden when she's out of hospital, but at the moment I don't really want to do that."

 

But Mitch hopes Amy will be allowed to perform at the Glastonbury Festival next weekend because he believes singing has saved her life. He said: "If she hadn't done recent shows in Moscow and Portugal she could have been dead by now. She abstains and regulates her drug use when she has to do a show.

"When she's been inactive work-wise then that's when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn't any reason why she can't do Glastonbury."

 

Mitch says he and Amy's mum - his ex-wife Janis - are trying their best to help their daughter. He said: "My family have been criticised for not doing enough for Amy. Some say we should put her in a room and throw away the key but that's against the law. In our limited way, we are doing the best we can and we are being guided by the doctors and psychologists.

"There's no need to cry yet. If, God forbid, doctors said they can't help her, then that's when we can have a good cry. But if she doesn't go back to drugs then she can lead this magnificent life. With her husband Blake too, if he gets clean as well."

 

He added: "We are praying that that's what Amy really wants. She seems resolute.

 

"I've started to see my old Amy back. We'll just have to see how great her resolution is."

 

What is Emphysema?

 

Emphysema kills 40,000 Britons a year.

Usually caused by smoking, it ages the lungs prematurely and the effects cannot be reversed.

It can lead to collapsed lungs, heart and brain problems and early death.

Dr Mike Morgan of the British Lung Foundation said: "It's very worrying that Amy has it at her age. But we are seeing a lot more young drug addicts with this condition."

 

Singer Amy Winehouse has lung damage and irregular heart beat, says her father

 

 

"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying. "There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She has 70 percent lung capacity."

 

Winehouse collapsed at her north London home Monday after signing autographs for a group of fans and was taken to a London hospital for tests. She remained there all week.

 

She is still scheduled to sing at a concert in London on Friday celebrating 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the South African Nobel Prize-winner, and plans to take part in the Glastonbury music festival the following day.

 

Mitch Winehouse said it would be good for his daughter to perform.

 

"When she's been inactive work-wise then that's when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn't any reason why she can't do Glastonbury," the paper quoted him as saying.

 

He also pleaded with her drug taking friends to stay away from her.

 

"What hope does she have if people are taking drugs around her," he said.

 

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I just read about this. I hope she can quit before it's too late.

That's awful :( But she's brought it upon herself.