A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl has been hailed a 'little angel' after saving her mum's life.

Brave Jennifer Lloyd prevented her mum, Amanda, from falling into a life-threatening diabetic coma after she collapsed at home in Glebelands Road.

The youngster, who is very poorly herself with a serious illness, managed to keep her mum warm with towels, increased her blood sugar level with sweets and telephoned for help.

Amanda (41), a qualified nurse and occupational health advisor, said: "Jenny was so desperately ill herself. She was alone and frightened, but still had enough in her to sort me out. She saved my life that day, she's my little angel."

Jenny, a pupil at St Mary's Primary in Prestwich, was home from Fairfield Hospital for the weekend when her mum fell ill.

Amanda was at home with Jenny and had had her usual injection of insulin but had forgotten to eat breakfast when she began to feel herself going into a deep state of hypoglycaemia.

Lying in the hallway, Amanda was conscious, but unable to move or speak properly. Jenny ran to the sweetie drawer in the kitchen and fed her mum jelly beans to try and get her blood sugar level up. She gathered rugs and towels from the bathroom and washing from the radiators to act as blankets.

The youngster contacted her dad on his mobile phone. Jenny and Amanda's trauma lasted around two hours as the youngster sat and stroked her mum's head, but as soon as dad Bob got the message he was home within minutes and was able to give Amanda a quick-acting dextrose gel to stabilise her.