A 26-year-old Vietnamese woman has left doctors baffled as she lost her once youthful appearance. Nguyen Thi Phuong believes that an allergic reaction to seafood she ate in 2008, caused the skin over her face and body to sag and wrinkle. It has come to light now, as she has shown her face in public for the first time since it happened. Her story has led health experts to question what could have triggered her rapid aging as pictures show Phuong looking like two different people. Mrs Nguyen had been treating herself with various types of medication, from a local pharmacy as she and her husband could not afford to have her examined at a hospital. She said: “I was really itchy all over my body. I had to scratch even while sleeping. 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.” The couple does not remember what the traditional medication was called, or which pharmacy they had bought it from. In 2009 they decided to stop using the remedy; from then on Phuong wore a face mask whenever she was in public. She said: “The skin on my face, chest and belly has folds like an old woman who has given birth several times although I have never had a child. “But the rapid-aging syndrome hasn't affected my menstrual cycle, hair, teeth, eyes and mind.” Phuong’s husband, Thanh Tuyen, insists her story is true and continues to stand by his wife despite the loss of her youthful appearance. Tuyen said: “I married Phuong when she was a beautiful woman. I have followed her through her disease and have never been shocked at all. “It's not easy to talk about one's own marital affairs. Just simply understand that I still love her very much.” Mrs Nguyen has not had much luck treating her condition but there still may be a happy ending. Phuong was able to have a free consultation at the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital, in Vietnam, with doctors who believed she may have been badly affected with the skin disease, mastocytosis. From this diagnosis, doctors hope that with medical treatment they will be able to restore between 50 and 70% of her skin.
This is so so sad, especially when its an issue with your face, I really feel bad for her husband if she is married.
seems like someone is not reading the article, instead just c+p... "Phuong’s husband, Thanh Tuyen, insists her story is true and continues to stand by his wife despite the loss of her youthful appearance."
i didnt read it, sometimes i find something interesting and post it, good thing about that is i can read it at a later time and not forget or lose it. cya later Poirot :trollface2:
they dont know what the medicines were called or which pharmacy they got it from? thats just too weird!! Sucha sad story...... Omg, u serious? u feel sorry for her husband? what about the girl......... shes the one who has to walk ard with that face... i cant even start to imagine something like this happening to me... one of a woman's worse nightmares!! im glad her husband is a good man n didnt leave her cuz of her looks... sucha loyal man....
Sad to see this. :( So young too. I wonder if it goes any further.. But look on the bright side.. maybe you get discount for being an "elder" considering if they dont check ID
Lesson of the story ... don't simply drink those Chinese meds. Pharmaceutical drugs may be bad; but at least, this won't happen.
If that happened to me my memory of what caused it would come back pretty sharpish or i would go over everything i ever bought and pinpoint it.
definitely, pin point all possible locations that you have been to (in this case the pharmacy) and track those prescriptions. It is strange how they don't know what they took and where they bought it from..Yeah Jeff it is sad, I don't blame her for walking out with a mask and yes I agree such a loyal husband she have.
i heard its fake that its a old lady trying to sue and get money...she is saying some seafood she ate.
if that's the case, then if this is a true story, i can't even imagine how the wife must feel, let alone the husband. hope they find a cure or something!
