“My life is unfortunately never going to be what it was,” said Emily McAllister ...
A MUM-OF-ONE has told of her agony after she was left permanently blind and saw almost all her skin melt off just days after starting a new medication. Emily McAllister, from Chicago, US, was ...
A 23-year-old New Zealand woman is sharing her "terrifying" reaction to medication she took for depression, claiming it "burned me from the inside out" and nearly killed her. Facebook / Charlotte ...
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a rare, severe, and potentially fatal allergic reaction In November 2021, Kara Carpenter and her brother were deep in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas when she ...
A woman in Illinois, U.S., developed a debilitating skin disease, which eventually led to the loss of 87% of her skin and her ...
Most cases of SJS are probably a cell-mediated hypersensitivity reaction; in some cases monocytes and macrophages are present and auto-antibodies may be pathogenic. SJS is characterized by skin ...
First identified by Stevens and Johnson in 1922, SJS and TEN are now recognized as disorders with a continuum of severity, from milder forms (SJS) to the most severe (TEN). SJS/TEN is associated with ...
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) survivors encounter rare, life-threatening drug reactions and years of physical, emotional and social consequences long after ...