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A young British backpacker found alive after three nights lost in the Queensland outback survived by drinking contact lens fluid and his own urine, his mother has revealed.
Claire Derry said her 18-year-old son Sam Derry-Woodhead had lost 15 kilograms during his ordeal in searing heat on a remote property 130 kilometres from Longreach.
Sam, who went missing on Tuesday afternoon from Upshot Station, where he had spent about 10 days working as a jackaroo as part of his gap year, was found sunburnt and dehydrated on Friday.
"He tried drinking his own urine and that was pretty revolting experience and he wasn’t able to cope much with that," Ms Derry said.
"So he drank tiny sips of the contact lens fluid he had with him and that saved him. He lost 15 kilograms though.”
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