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A Vietnamese woman who claims she aged by 50 years in just days has doctors grappling for answers.
Nguyen Thi Phuong has the wrinkled and saggy skin of a woman in her seventies, but claims she is just 26 years old, the Sun reports.
Ms Nguyen claims her skin started to sag and fold after an allergic reaction to seafood in 2008, which caused her to develop hives.
She used traditional medicine to treat the hives, but her skin began to age rapidly days later, she says.
"All the hives disappeared, together with my itching. However, my skin began to sag and fold," she was quoted as saying.
"I hope some kind people can help me find out what the problem is and I can be treated so my face gets back to normal."
Sydney-based dermatologist Michelle Hunt told ninemsn she was suspicious about the claims, after seeing photos of Ms Nguyen before and after her condition developed.
"There is a slight difference in the nasal elevation between the two," she said.
"Usually, with age, the nose tip droops but in this case it is tilted up a bit in the photo where she looks older … which makes me wonder if the photos are of two different people."
But it was also possible that Ms Nguyen suffered from generalised cutis laxa, Dr Hunt said.
Cutis laxa is a rare condition that causes skin to lose all its elasticity.
It is congenital condition but has also been linked to allergic reactions.
The condition, which is extremely rare, may develop any age following an outbreak of hives, Dr Hunt said.
She said a skin biopsy could verify Ms Nguyen's claims.
Doctor Hoang Van Minh, head of the dermatology ward at Ho Chi Minh City Medical University, diagnosed Ms Nguyen's condition as mastocytosis, according to local news publication Talk Vietnam.
But Dr Hunt said this condition, a rare disorder caused by too many mast cells, would usually cause a patient's skin to look red and pigmented, rather than making it sag and droop.
Dr Hunt said the condition would most likely need to be corrected with cosmetic surgery.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8360261/vietnamese-woman-aged-decades-in-days
Nguyen Thi Phuong has the wrinkled and saggy skin of a woman in her seventies, but claims she is just 26 years old, the Sun reports.
Ms Nguyen claims her skin started to sag and fold after an allergic reaction to seafood in 2008, which caused her to develop hives.
She used traditional medicine to treat the hives, but her skin began to age rapidly days later, she says.
"All the hives disappeared, together with my itching. However, my skin began to sag and fold," she was quoted as saying.
"I hope some kind people can help me find out what the problem is and I can be treated so my face gets back to normal."
Sydney-based dermatologist Michelle Hunt told ninemsn she was suspicious about the claims, after seeing photos of Ms Nguyen before and after her condition developed.
"There is a slight difference in the nasal elevation between the two," she said.
"Usually, with age, the nose tip droops but in this case it is tilted up a bit in the photo where she looks older … which makes me wonder if the photos are of two different people."
But it was also possible that Ms Nguyen suffered from generalised cutis laxa, Dr Hunt said.
Cutis laxa is a rare condition that causes skin to lose all its elasticity.
It is congenital condition but has also been linked to allergic reactions.
The condition, which is extremely rare, may develop any age following an outbreak of hives, Dr Hunt said.
She said a skin biopsy could verify Ms Nguyen's claims.
Doctor Hoang Van Minh, head of the dermatology ward at Ho Chi Minh City Medical University, diagnosed Ms Nguyen's condition as mastocytosis, according to local news publication Talk Vietnam.
But Dr Hunt said this condition, a rare disorder caused by too many mast cells, would usually cause a patient's skin to look red and pigmented, rather than making it sag and droop.
Dr Hunt said the condition would most likely need to be corrected with cosmetic surgery.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8360261/vietnamese-woman-aged-decades-in-days
