A 26-year–old old woman is a victim of "traditional medicine"?
Nguyen Thi Phuong (Nguyen Thi Phuong) at 26 looks older than his own grandmother. She claims to have aged in just a few months, writes the Daily Mail (Bizarre case of the woman who says she went from age 23 to 73 in 'a few days').
In the left picture, Nguyen is 21 years old, on the right – 26.
The disease began in 2008 with an exacerbation of an allergy to seafood, which Nguyen suffered from all her life. From unbearable itching, she itched even in her sleep, but because of poverty she could not afford an examination in the hospital.
At first, the woman was treated with some pills bought at a pharmacy. After a month, the itching gradually began to decrease, but the rash on the skin did not disappear. Then Nguyen decided to switch to folk remedies. Both the rash and itching passed ... but the skin on the chest, face, and stomach began to gather in folds. Now she looks like a deep old woman and is so shy about it that she does not leave the house without a mask. At the same time, the disease did not affect the condition of her teeth and hair and did not affect the menstrual cycle.
In 2010 Nguyen and her husband moved from their native village to Binh Phuoc province. Her husband continued to work as a carpenter, and Nguyen herself got a job at a cashew nut processing plant. But the two of them earn less than 92 pounds a month (about $ 150), and the examination in a good hospital in Ho Chi Minh City is still not affordable for a woman.
I won't leave her anyway...
Recently, doctors at a hospital in Ben Tre Province promised to examine Nguyen for free and, if necessary, send her to a dermatological clinic in Ho Chi Minh City.
Most experts who have read Nguyen's case believe that the changes in her body were triggered by a drug purchased at a pharmacy: abrupt withdrawal of corticosteroids is a common cause of Cushing's disease. In addition, local healers often add corticosteroids to the means of "folk medicine". Hormonal drugs can also cause lipodystrophy.
Cushing's syndrome unites a group of diseases in which there is a long-term chronic effect on the body of an excessive amount of hormones of the adrenal cortex, regardless of the cause that caused an increase in the amount of these hormones in the blood. The most common variant of Cushing's syndrome is exogenous, developing during treatment with glucocorticoids. Mostly people aged 20-40 years are ill.
Lipodystrophy (Greek: lipos fat + dystrophy – eating disorder) is a general or local lesion of subcutaneous tissue with a decrease (atrophic form) or an increase (hypertrophic form) in the volume of adipose tissue.
There is, of course, no consensus among experts yet. It is possible that this disease is an atypical form of mastocytosis, in which the so–called mast cells multiply intensively in the connective tissue. It is possible that Nguyen suffers from an unknown disease to science. Whether pharmacy corticosteroids or medicine men's drugs are to blame for this is also unknown.
But doctors do not lose optimism and believe that first it is necessary to cure allergies and to further examine the patient for the presence of other diseases, and they hope to partially restore the skin condition.
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14.10.2011