A woman named Nguyen Thi Phuong, from Vietnam went from age 23 to 73 within 2 years.
She always wears a mask in public to hide her appearance, and also she is trying to get treatment from doctors to reverse-age her.
Her condition is due to a lifelong allergy to seafood. She says that at initial, it was itching all over the body and she scratched even while sleeping.
Nguyen Thi Phuong said she took some medicine bought at a local pharmacy instead of going to the hospital because her husband Tuyen, now 33, was too poor to afford it.
She said: ‘After one month of taking the drugs, I became less itchy but hives remained on my skin. Then I switched to traditional medicine and all the hives disappeared, together with my itching. However, my skin began to sag and fold.’
Mrs. Nguyen then took another kind of traditional medicine to treat her rapid-aging skin problem, but no use.
Doctors say it may have been the long-term use of traditional medicines that caused the condition as they are often spiked with corticoids. These steroids speed up the effects of the unregulated remedies but could also have triggered the rare skin disease mastocytosis, where the body produces too many mast cells.
Some doctors said that there is currently no complete cure. She needs to be treated for her allergies first. The treatment could restore between 50-70 percent of her skin to normal and laser therapy could reduce the folds.
Tuyen said his wife’s disease has not affected his love for her or their relationship.
He said: ‘I married Phuong when she was a beautiful woman. I have followed her through her disease and have never been shocked at all.
Just simply understand that I still love her very much.’
Mrs. Nguyen said: ‘He still loves me like before despite the fact that I look old and ugly. With him, I feel more confident to live and work.’
Mrs. Nguyen added that her husband’s love is the reason she is able to persevere in the face of adversity.
A woman named Nguyen Thi Phuong, from Vietnam went from age 23 to 73 within 2 years.
She always wears a mask in public to hide her appearance, and also she is trying to get treatment from doctors to reverse-age her.
Her condition is due to a lifelong allergy to seafood. She says that at initial, it was itching all over the body and she scratched even while sleeping.
Nguyen Thi Phuong said she took some medicine bought at a local pharmacy instead of going to the hospital because she and her husband Tuyen, now 33, were too poor to afford it.
She said: ‘After one month of taking the drugs, I became less itchy but hives remained on my skin. Then I switched to traditional medicine and all the hives disappeared, together with my itching. However, my skin began to sag and fold.’
Mrs. Nguyen then took another kind of traditional medicine to treat her rapid-aging skin problem, but no use.
Doctors say it may have been the long-term use of traditional medicines that caused the condition as they are often spiked with corticoids. These steroids speed up the effects of the unregulated remedies but could also have triggered the rare skin disease mastocytosis, where the body produces too many mast cells.
Some doctors said that there is currently no complete cure. She needs to be treated for her allergies first. The treatment could restore between 50-70 percent of her skin to normal and laser therapy could reduce the folds.
Tuyen said his wife’s disease has not affected his love for her or their relationship.
He said: ‘I married Phuong when she was a beautiful woman. I have followed her through her disease and have never been shocked at all.
Just simply understand that I still love her very much.’
Mrs. Nguyen said: ‘He still loves me like before despite the fact that I look old and ugly. With him, I feel more confident to live and work.’
Mrs. Nguyen added that her husband’s love is the reason she is able to persevere in the face of adversity.
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