Average pain medication can cause coma

This young man beginning to fall off pieces of skin, and he fell into a coma, and the doctors did not know whether to revive him. All this was the result of an allergic reaction to the most common pain reliever.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

28-year-old resident of the English Sunderland Jason Ryan felt at influenza symptoms and decided to be treated with ibuprofen. He'd faced with the flu, take this medicine and have had no problems, but this time everything went very nightmare scenario that you can imagine. First Jason bubbles appear on the skin, but he did not associate them with ibuprofen.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Soon some bubbles swelled to the size of tennis balls, and wife Ryan called an ambulance. At the hospital doctors was diagnosed - Stevens-Johnson syndrome , Severe erythema multiforme, which occurs as an allergic reaction to medication. Its victims are two people per million, and the disease is often seen in women. If untreated, or if doctors intervene at a later stage, the disease can lead to death. Among the serious complications - blindness and lung damage.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Once doctors diagnosed Stevens-Johnson syndrome , The patient was strictly forbidden to take ibouprofen. Meanwhile, the skin on his body and face start to fall off layers as the cells died, unable to exfoliate naturally. In this regard, Jason was something like a lizard skin me. Soon, the patient fell into a coma for nine days, he was on a drip, receiving antibiotics and other medicines.

His weight coma was 81 kg, and after - only 56. He could not move his hands and feet, moving only the head. After discharge from the hospital, Jason returned home, and his wife had to leave work to care for her husband 24 hours a day. While it resembles a feeble old man, but every day he added the force, and doctors believe he will be able to fully recover. The young man also has to overcome and psychological consequences - he developed posttraumatic stress disorder. (READ MORE)

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