Britney Spears' two-year-old son was rushed to hospital over the weekend. Photo / AP
UPDATED: Britney Spears
' two-year-old son
Jayden James
was rushed to hospital on Sunday following a severe reaction to something he ate.
The singer, who was on a trip to her family home in Kentwood, Louisiana, raced her son to the emergency ward of a Mississippi hospital after he reportedly lapsed "into a vague and unresponsive state".
A source tells
People.com
that the toddler suffered a "terrible allergic reaction. He had hives, was itchy and irritable".
Britain's
MailOnline
reports that "One minute Britney and her sons were relaxing and enjoying their first visit to Kentwood in months, and the next minute Jayden had fallen ill.
"He was vague and unresponsive so Britney dialled an ambulance. But she was told it would take half an hour to arrive, and she was best trying to get Jayden to the hospital herself."
Spears then rushed her son to a Kentwood-area hospital at 1:30pm on Sunday, and remained at his bedside overnight.
Sources say that Jayden is "is doing fine," and is expected to be discharged from hospital today.
A statement on behalf of the singer posted on her
confirms her son was hospitalised.
"Jayden James Federline was admitted to the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Centre on Sunday, November 9th. Doctors concluded he had a reaction to something he ingested. He is expected to be discharged tomorrow (Tuesday)."
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