A mother has spoken of her terror after claiming her severely disabled son was given the wrong prescription twice and was violently sick.

Tanya Whitworth, 41, from Smarden, said four-year-old Ethan, was rushed to hospital on New Year’s Day after suffering a seizure.

The youngster, who is non-verbal and has epilepsy and cerebral palsy, was given a feeding tube and recommended a nutritional milk by a dietician.

Miss Whitworth says she picked up the prescription from Charing Surgery and Pharmacy and fed her son the milk through his tube for a week.

But Ethan was violently sick every day, which meant he was not getting any of his medication or food and was in danger of choking.

The nutritionist told her to check which milk he was having and quickly pointed out the error – Ethan should have been prescribed Nutrini Multi Fibre milk but he was given Nutrini Energy Multi Fibre, a much stronger tube feed.

Miss Whitworth, who has another son, Ivan, two, who is blind, and a daughter, Mazie, six months, said: “It’s like going from red-top milk to gold top with double cream.

"It is no wonder it made him so sick.

“It is disgusting that a mistake like this could happen, because it could have been fatal for my son" - mum Tanya Whitworth

“It is disgusting that a mistake like this could happen, because it could have been fatal for my son.

“He has poor swallow and often chokes, so if I’m not there and he is choking he could choke to death.

“He is not getting his epilepsy medication because he is throwing it all back up, and something like this could be fatal because it could send him into a long seizure.

“I have had to sleep in his bedroom with him to make sure he isn’t sick in the night.

“It wasn’t as if they gave me 10 bottles of the wrong stuff.

"It was 168 bottles, so it is a waste of money for them too.”

Days later, Miss Whitworth said she discovered Ethan had also been given the wrong epilepsy prescription.

The consultant at the hospital had prescribed the tot 50mg of topiramate, which could be dissolved in water and fed through a tube.

But when she went to pick up a repeat order from the doctor, she says he had written a prescription for 15mg capsules, which needed to be sprinkled over food – even though Ethan is not fed orally.

Miss Whitworth added: “It’s unbelievable really.

“It is sorted now because I went to the pharmacy and they fixed it, but I want to warn people that these mistakes can happen.

“When you have a disabled child you have to fight for everything for them.

"My son is non-verbal so he can’t tell me what’s wrong and now he doesn’t trust me.

“If someone said ‘it’s my fault, I’m sorry’, I would not be so cross, but no one has given me an answer and I want to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

Miss Whitworth said she has since changed her family’s doctors.

Charing Surgery were approached for a comment but practice manager Kay Acott said: “I’m not in a position to discuss anyone because I’m duty bound to keep patient confidentiality.”

A spokesperson for Ashford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which oversees doctors’ surgeries in the borough said: “I am sorry to hear about this incident.

“There are strict protocols around the sharing of patient identifiable information, and NHS organisations are unable to process requests for information about patients from third parties.”