Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts had to make an early morning dash to the hospital after accidentally getting poisonous sap in his eyes.
The presenter explained he cut a plant called euphorbia in his garden, and wasn’t aware that the white sap it produced ’causes serious issues’.
He noticed later in the day that his eyes, which he had rubbed, started to sting and get increasingly worse.
Martin, 56, shared an Instagram video from hospital as a warning to his followers.
His eyes visibly streaming, he said: ‘This is a really important warning. It’s 3.30 in the morning and I’m in A&E.
‘I was doing some gardening earlier on and there’s a plant called euphorbia.
‘It’s in lots of people’s gardens and if you cut it, as I did, it produces a white sap and if you get that on your hands and, worse, if you get that on your eyes then it causes some serious issues and that’s exactly where I am right now.
‘It started stinging. It’s got worse and worse and worse as the evening’s gone on so I couldn’t sleep. And now I’m waiting to see a doctor.’
The I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star finished off: ‘Listen, look out for this plant. It doesn’t have flowers. It’s green and it’s got this yellowy-green leaves that look a bit like flowers.’
In the caption Martin added: ‘Not been a good week, all in all.’
Euphorbia, commonly known as spurges, can be annuals, perennials, shrubs or succulents and produce a milky sap, say the Royal Horticultural Society.
All parts are highly toxic to ingestion.
The presenter appeared on I’m A Celeb in 2016.
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