AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has been praised after his actions probably saved his gran’s life, his dad told the Courier.

Ryan Lough was visiting his gran Isobel, who stays in sheltered accommodation, at the start of the October school break when she took unwell and collapsed.

He went to her aid and also called an ambulance and she was taken from Letham Gardens, in Dunbar, to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Ryan’s dad, Alan, was overawed by his son’s actions and told the Courier: “Everybody in the building at Letham Gardens is delighted with him.

“When I later went round to see my mum I just started greeting. Ryan asked why I was crying and I told him I was not upset, I was just proud of what he had done.”

Isobel was discharged from hospital last Friday and is now back at home.

Forty-six-year-old Alan was pleased to say she was doing well and on the road to recovery.

He said: “My mum has my son on a Saturday for about six hours from lunchtime until about 6pm.

“She had been saying she was not well but was just shrugging it off.

“But she collapsed in her hallway and was out for the count.

“It was about 5.30pm, just before [Ryan] usually comes home.

“We had trained him on what to do if anything like this happened and my son put a pillow under her head, put her head to the side in case she choked on her vomit and put a cover on her.”

Ryan, who is in P7 at Dunbar Primary School’s Lochend campus, then got help before calling 999.

Alan, of the town’s Boroughdales, was thrilled with Ryan’s action and told the Courier it was a case of what might have been if he had not been there.

He added: “It is just a possibility that she might have gone if he had not been there. I’m just proud of him and what he has done.

“The folk in Letham Gardens are just so proud of him as well.”

Staff at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary think Isobel, 75, was dehydrated and had not been eating well ahead of her collapse, which took place on October 15.

She then spent almost a week in the Capital hospital before she was discharged at the end of last week.

Alan, who is a carer for his wife Caroline, said they had taught Ryan basic first aid after his grandfather Thomas had passed away almost 12 months ago.

He said: “We just trained him to do this in case anything happened.”