A nurse’s seemingly only sore throat transformed her body into a rare ‘leopard print’ pattern. Read more about her skin condition.
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After receiving a prognosis from physicians, Ashling spiraled into an emotional abyss.
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The nurse’s diagnosis from the doctors’ was Guttate Psoriasis, a skin disease common in children and young adults, which often erupts after an infection like strep throat.
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It isn’t a chronic condition and usually goes away on its own after a few weeks. Expectedly, the diagnosis got Ashling down, and she was even told the sore throat caused the sudden rash.
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Her condition, which was expected to last a few weeks, persisted for almost six months.
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It started on my chest in mid-January. It was very mild at this point. When I was younger I used to have really bad acne so I didn’t think anything of it. My mom came up to Belfast the following week and asked to see my back and I hadn’t seen it myself and she said ‘Ashling, your back is completely covered,” she told Kennedy News.
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Ashling updated her 400K TikTok followers that her blotches were starting to fade following five sessions of light treatment.
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The recovery follows a period of unbearable embarrassment.
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