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CA: Teen takes antibiotic, burns 'from inside-out'

Emily

Emily

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/11/stevens-johnson-syndrome/20231195/
Teen takes antibiotic, burns 'from inside-out'
Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY 1:09 a.m. EST December 11, 2014

A California teen is in intensive care after she took a friend's antibiotic and wound up with an ailment that is burning her body from the inside-out.

Yaasmeen Castanada, 19, is fighting for her life in the burn unit of the University of California Irvine Medical Center after a diagnosis with a life-threatening drug reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

"It's heartbreaking," Laura Corona, Yaasmeen's mother, told ABC News. "(It's) just unreal, just watching your daughter burn in front of you."..
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There was another case like this in a younger girl in the UK in October. I hope there isn't a contamination problem with the drug.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229706
 
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