Rare skin-rejection disorder leaves Kacey, 8, blind
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl has been unable to open her eyes for a whole year after contracting a rare life-threatening skin condition.
Eight-year-old Kacey Renwick was left with blisters all over her body – even her eyeballs – after contracting a syndrome that affects just one in a million people. She fell ill last year with a severe form of Stevens-Johnson syndrome known as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN). The Blisters have eroded her eyeballs and left her unable to open her eyes.
Kacey, of Wallyford, near Edinburgh, is thought to have developed the illness – which causes the body to reject the top layer of its skin – after a freak reaction to over-the-counter medicine. And although Kacey says she is slowly regaining the ability to see shapes and colours, surgeons have so far been unable to restore her sight despite carrying out 12 corneal grafts over the past year.
TEN, typically caused by an adverse reaction to drugs or a virus, has a 40 per cent mortality rate.
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