Woman Who Aged From 23 To 73 In 'a Few Days' -- A Rare Disease

[Jambhalheart]

LONDON: Doctors are said to have been baffled by a bizarre skin condition which has left a young woman from Vietnam looking like a septuagenarian - it caused the 23-year-old to age 50 years in a matter of days.

In fact, the sad story of Nguyen Thi Phuong, now 26, reportedly began in 2008, when her youthful beauty began to fade over the course of a few days, leaving her with sagging, wrinkled skin all over her face and body. Nguyen from the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre in Vietnam believes the cause of the astonishing rapid ageing process to be a lifelong allergy to seafood. "Five years ago, I was rather pretty and not so ugly like this, right?" she said, adding that she had suffered a particularly bad allergic reaction to seafood in 2008. "I was really itchy all over my body.

I had to scratch even while sleeping," she was quoted by British media as saying. Until now she was forced to wear a mask in public to hide her appearance from prying eyes, but doctors are attempting to establish what caused her sudden and horrifying aging. A team of doctors from Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital in Ben Tre Province has said it would examine Phuong for free and send her to the HCMC Dermatology Hospital if they failed to diagnose her condition. Dr Hoang Van Minh from the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital, who visited her, believes that Nguyen may have been afflicted with mastocytosis , evidenced by the fact her face is still swollen and she suffers frequently from diarrhoea.

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[tom brady]

hope she recovers

[k2s]

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LONDON: Doctors are said to have been baffled by a bizarre skin condition which has left a young woman from Vietnam looking like a septuagenarian - it caused the 23-year-old to age 50 years in a matter of days.

In fact, the sad story of Nguyen Thi Phuong, now 26, reportedly began in 2008, when her youthful beauty began to fade over the course of a few days, leaving her with sagging, wrinkled skin all over her face and body. Nguyen from the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre in Vietnam believes the cause of the astonishing rapid ageing process to be a lifelong allergy to seafood. "Five years ago, I was rather pretty and not so ugly like this, right?" she said, adding that she had suffered a particularly bad allergic reaction to seafood in 2008. "I was really itchy all over my body.

I had to scratch even while sleeping," she was quoted by British media as saying. Until now she was forced to wear a mask in public to hide her appearance from prying eyes, but doctors are attempting to establish what caused her sudden and horrifying aging. A team of doctors from Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital in Ben Tre Province has said it would examine Phuong for free and send her to the HCMC Dermatology Hospital if they failed to diagnose her condition. Dr Hoang Van Minh from the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital, who visited her, believes that Nguyen may have been afflicted with mastocytosis , evidenced by the fact her face is still swollen and she suffers frequently from diarrhoea.

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