By Kate Seamons
FoxNews.com
LOS ANGELES — In a case both bizarre and horrifying, a 19-year-old California woman is burning from the inside out. How that’s possible: an allergic reaction. Yaasmeen Castanada, a 19-year-old Cal State LA sophomore and mother to a 4-month-old, was battling a sore throat on Thanksgiving, so she took a friend’s antibiotic, reports CNN.
She rapidly “started having a hard time breathing, and she told her mom that her lips were burning, her throat, her eyes, they got so red that she couldn’t talk,” says her aunt.
Within 24 hours she was hooked up to a ventilator; she’s now at the University of California, Irvine, burn center. Her initial diagnosis was known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, an allergic reaction that caused her skin’s layers to part, resulting in open wounds.
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