FOUR-year-old Cameron Steel kept his cool when his mum collapsed after a hair dryer gave her an electric shock.

The youngster calmly went upstairs to alert his dad, who was in the bath, and also called next door to summon help from a neighbour.

And as the two adults tried to revive his mother, Tracy, he kept his one-year-old sister, Sophie, occupied by playing games with her.

Tracy, 28, was taken to hospital but has fully recovered - and believes her son's actions may have helped save her life.

"He is my little saviour,'' she said.

The drama happened on Saturday night as Tracy was drying Cameron's hair downstairs at the family home in Tantobie, near Stanley, County Durham, while husband Mark, 30, who works at the Sage in Gateshead, was having a soak.

Tracy said: "All of a sudden, bang, I went flying across the room like Peter Pan and hit the wall. My vertebrae was trapped. I had a fit and I couldn't speak at all and I couldn't move.

"Cameron went upstairs and told his dad 'the telly's gone off and the hair dryer's gone off and mam's on the floor with Sophie'.

"At first, he thought there was a power cut and I was playing with our daughter, but he realised there was something more to it when he heard Cameron shouting 'mam, mam'."

Mark came downstairs. Meanwhile, Cameron told next-door neighbour Ronnie Peel that "all the power has gone off and I can't move her and dad's in the bath".

Ronnie, 45, a former Army first aid instructor, rushed round to help. He put Tracy into the recovery position, but then she stopped breathing.

Mr Peel said: "I went to put her on her back to do CPR, but everything came back.''

Tracy was taken by ambulance to University Hospital in Durham City for the night.

Tracy has thrown out the dryer and Cameron could be in line for a trip to a balloon fiesta as a reward as he loves balloons.