A 63-year-old retired retail manager died after eating four duck eggs he bought at a village fair in what intensive care doctors said was the worst case of salmonella ever seen. Text / Editor of Undefined / Undefined Mr. Niptoon Tavakoli, 63, bought 6 duck eggs at the Messingham

A retired retail manager, 63, died after eating four duck eggs he bought at a village fair in what intensive care doctors said was the worst case of salmonella ever seen.

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63-year-old Mr. Niptoon Tavakoli bought 6 duck eggs at the Messingham Country Market in Lincolnshire in 2019.

The wife of Mr. Tavakoli, a 63-year-old prison staff member, said that Mr. Tavakoli fried the first two duck eggs at first and found that they tasted good and there were no accidents.

"He fried them and ate them with toast."

"He fried them very well," she said. Mrs Tavakoli said that on Wednesday, two days later, he decided to eat two more eggs, saying: "I love these duck eggs so much, I'm going to eat two more. My mouth was itchy and I decided to eat two more, , but just after eating the second duck egg, something bad happened.

He called emergency services because his wife was not around, but he said paramedics gave him some life-saving advice at home.

But Mr Tavakoli was still not feeling well, and just two months after his illness he died at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

Mr Tavakoli's wife Cheryl told Doncaster Coroner's Court that they were at a meeting in Messingham, North Lincolnshire, on Sunday, June 2, 2019, from Melton-Mowbray Delicatessen. Six eggs were bought from the stall and it was a lovely family outing to the market.

She told the jury of seven women and four men that he cooked the eggs in the same way.

Mrs Tavakoli said she woke up on Friday morning to find her husband had fallen ill during the night, suffering from diarrhea and vomiting.

She explained that she had made the reluctant trip to Essex due to a bereavement of a family relative and when she left her husband told her that he had called an ambulance.

Mrs Tavakoli said her husband, who came to the UK from Iran when he was 19 to study engineering, told her that nursing staff gave him advice but did not take him to hospital.

She later returned to their home in Lindholm, near Doncaster, but he was still very unwell.

She said she had thought things might have been different 'if she had stayed with him'.

She cared for her husband at home for two days until Monday, a week after attending the rally, when she called emergency services again

Mrs Tavakoli was explaining how she was extremely worried about her husband, fearing he might have sepsis. Shi held back tears.

She said he had developed spots, his lips and fingernails had turned blue and he was cold.

"If the ambulance can't get here quickly, you'd better send him to the hospital."

Because the ambulance couldn't get here quickly, Mrs. Tavakoli planned to send him directly to Doncaster Royal Hospital, but Tavakoli Mrs Vakoli said she was concerned about the attitude of ambulance crews and why they did not drive with their sirens lights flashing.

She said: 'They seemed quite rude to my husband - treating him like a fussy old man who had just come down with an infectious disease.

' But I fear it was something more serious. He was in great pain.

Intensive care specialist Jon - Dr Jon Maskill said Mr Tavakoli had been critically ill from the time he was admitted to hospital

He told the jury this level of salmonella was unusual. Not something you see very often. "I was a critical care physician for 27 years. He is the only second person I have ever met who had this level of salmonella.

Dr. Maskell said antibiotics were used to treat the disease, but it was clear that the salmonella bacteria was still present in some parts of his body despite the use.

The doctor said he believed there was no hope of surgery to remove the infection anywhere in the body, and Mr Tavakoli died of multiple organ failure on August 12, 2019.

and said: "We came to the sad conclusion that there was nothing we could do for him and keeping him comfortable was all we could do for him.

Mrs Tavakoli explained that she was shocked when she realized it might be duck eggs She took the two remaining duck eggs to the hospital for analysis, then scrubbed her home with bleach and threw away the used pot.

She said: "When I got home I went into a panic. I feel like these duck eggs are like a ticking time bomb in my house.

Mrs Tavakoli told the court that it was the happiest time of her husband's life.

She said: 'He is enjoying life. He is waiting for me to join him in retirement'.

Mrs Tavakoli and her family were in attendance at the court.

The trial continues.