When Rachel wakes up and drinks a
glass of water, she can feel it blistering her skin, leaving a trail of red,
itchy welts behind.
Rachel Warwick said: “It’s a world
where relaxing baths are the stuff of nightmares and snorkeling in tropical
seas is as appealing as rubbing yourself with bleach.”
This is the strange case of a girl,
that even with her own sweat suffers from pain, her skin is allergic to water;
if she touches water she gets cankerous eruptions, swells up, and has intense itching
for many hours. She cannot mourn because her face will hurt with the tears.
It is an "illness / bodily
reaction" call: aquagenic urticaria.
Many people wonder how Rachel can
survive that disease, if we are practically made of water, and she said:
enduring the pain.
This girl was around 12 years old
when she was diagnosed, after noticing a rash after swimming. The only
"solution" to the allergic skin reaction are anti-histamines, but they
are not very effective.
After many years, Maurer tried a
test with a treatment for asthma. This test is effective and the treatment
seems to work. However, this treatment will only ever be in test phase because
there are so few people suffering from this disease that money will not be
spent on finding a cure.
In my opinion, even though the
number of people who have this problem is very small, all we have solutions to
a problem, even though we are the only ones on the planet. For as happens to
this girl, is a very bad disease.
NEW VOCABULARY
STINGING NETTLES - ORTIGUES
THROAT - GOLA
LEISURE - OCI
NIGHTMARES - MALSONS
RUBBING - FREGAMENT
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