A vietnamese woman by the name of Nguyen Thi Phuong aged 50 years in a matter of days due to an alergic reaction to seafood! It happened while she was 21 and hasn't improved since. She's now 26 and wears a mask every time she goes out in public.
Some doctors believe it is a rare syndrom called lipodystrophy. It causes fatty tissue under the skin to disintegrate while the skin continues to grow at a strangly fast pace. The sad part is that the syndrome has no known cure.
Nguyen said she had always known about her alergy to seafood but had a particularly bad reaction to it this time. She said that her skin had itched all over but she just went to the drug store because her and her new husband couldn't affoard to go to the doctor. After about a month the itching stopped but her skin was still covered in hives.
After realeasing her story to the news media, some doctors believed that she isn't suffering from lipodystrophy, that it is just a bad side-effect from the steroid medication.
*The only comment i have on this is wow. I feel so bad for this lady. If i was 28 and looked like THAT, i don't even know what i would do.
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Awe, this is really sad. It stinds that there is no cure.
i would hate looking like that when i am still that young and wearing a mask everytime you go in public would just be tragic. If that happened to me i dont know what i would do.
awwww this is so sad. if this is an allergic reaction ive never heard of it before.
That is horrible! I would never want that to happen to me. It stinks that there's no cure.
Aw thats so sad i feel bad for that lady i don't know anybody who would want to look that old at age 28