A girl from Vietnam has aged several decades in a couple of days

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Food allergy is not considered a particularly serious ailment. It is enough to follow a diet and, if necessary, take medications prescribed by a doctor. And it is better not to get carried away with traditional medicine. The consequences can be the most unpleasant. So, a young resident of Vietnam, after taking unknown drugs, turned into an old woman in a matter of days.

26-year-old Nguyen Thi Phuong has sagging, wrinkled skin on her face and chest, belly folds like a woman in her 50s. Nevertheless, this is not an early menopause, the girl has healthy strong teeth and beautiful hair. Nguyen's skin problems began a few years ago after she underwent treatment for a food allergy.

The young woman, she said, had suffered from seafood allergies all her life. In 2008, her condition worsened. Not having enough money to see a doctor, she and her husband, who worked as a carpenter, bought "some kind of medicine" from the local pharmacy.

“After one month of taking the drugs, I began to itch less, but the rash remained on my skin. Then I switched to traditional medicine. As a result, the rash disappeared, but the skin began to sag, folds appeared on it,”Phuong quoted The Daily Mail as saying.

According to the woman, she quit treatment in 2009. The next year, Phuong and her husband changed their place of residence. The couple's earnings were low, and the girl could not afford to be examined at a good hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

The woman was recently promised help by doctors at a hospital in Ben Tre province. So far, doctors cannot figure out the reasons for its rapid aging, however, they do not exclude that the long-term use of traditional medicines containing corticosteroids is to blame.

These hormones can cause a rare skin condition called mastocytosis, when the body produces too many mast cells, causing a layer of fat to grow under the skin and the skin itself to become thinner. However, dermatologists from Ho Chi Minh City are inclined to believe that Phuong suffers from a disease unknown to science.