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Friend’s Antibiotic Causes Life-Threatening Reaction In Teen Mom, a california woman is in intensive care after having an allergic reaction to her friend’s medication that has caused her body to burn from the inside out.
Yaasmeen Castanada, 19, suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome after taking some anti-biotics on Thanksgiving Day because she was feeling sick.
Less than 24 hours after she swallowed the pill, her eyes, nose and throat suddenly began to burn.
Castanada’s mother Laura Corona told ABC 7 News that she immediately rushed her to hospital for help. But in the burn ward at UC Irvine Medical Center, she watched her daughter deteriorate.
Over just four days, Corona said she watched her daughter’s skin fall off as blisters broke out all over her body.
She had to be sedated and put on a ventilator.
“Her face changed within four days,” Corona told ABC 7 News.
“I would wipe her face and all the skin was just falling off.”
She described the situation as “heartbreaking”.
“Heartbreaking, just unreal. Just watching your daughter burn in front of you, literally burn in front of you,” she said.
Doctors diagnosed Castanada with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a rare, serious disorder of skin and mucous membranes, which usually stems from a reaction to a medication or an infection.
It often begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by a painful red or purplish rash that spreads and blisters. The top layer of the affected skin dies and sheds.
Yaasmeen Castanada has had surgery on her body, where doctor’s scraped the skin off and applied biobrane, a temporary biosynthetic skin dressing used on superficial and partial-thickness wounds.
Yaasmeen Castanada is a university student at California State University in LA, who is studying civil engineering. She also recently became a new mother to a four-month-old baby girl.
Corona told ABC 7 News that others should not share their prescribed medication with each other.
“First of all, don’t share medication, don’t give someone else your medication, don’t offer medication,” she said.
“Another thing also, go get yourself checked out and your kids checked out, because you don’t know what you’re allergic to. You don’t.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
