Daughter, 5, saved mother from septic shock by telling her teachers

Wearing a green tulle princess dress and a heart-shaped tiara, five-year-old Poppy Davies set off for school alone to find help for her collapsed mother — and in the process saved her from the UK’s “silent killer”.

Poppy had been playing in the costume the previous night at their home in Caerphilly, Wales, when her mother, Leisha Davies, 35, fell to the floor unconscious after slipping into life-threatening septic shock.

Poppy stayed by her mother’s side for the night of January 18-19 before putting on wellies in the morning, heading to class and informing teachers of the emergency. She said: “Mummy’s on the floor and I can’t wake her up.”

Teachers rushed to the house and put Davies, 35, a mental health nurse, in the