The girl was afraid of her sweat but couldn't shower for 7 years, and the doctor was also helpless

Lauren Montforsco (22 years old, Southern California, USA) suffers from a strange and rare disease that causes countless difficulties in daily activities. She bathed like she hadn't for the past 7 years.

Through research, Lauren Montforsco is allergic to water, making bathing the most difficult task of her life. Because for people in general and young girls in particular, not being able to shower is extremely uncomfortable.

Starting around age 15, Lauren felt her skin become itchy. After years of suffering silently, her condition got worse and she finally sought help from doctors. Recently, after many diagnoses, she was determined to have a rare disease called "water urticaria".

This is a variant of urticaria, the patient will develop a rash when exposed to water. Therefore, when Lauren showers or her skin comes into contact with water, she will feel intense itching, and this feeling can last up to an hour.

Sometimes because she's too uncomfortable, Lauren even torments herself by pinching her skin hard, using the feeling of pain to distract her attention and temporarily forget the discomfort caused by itching.

"It feels like an itch deep in the body, which cannot be resolved by scratching the surface of the skin, although the itchy areas will turn dark red after scratching. I try not to let myself itch, But I can't control it," she shared.

Because there is no cure for water-induced urticaria, bathing has now become an obsession for Lauren. To minimize, she tries to limit the number of times she touches water and, if necessary, completes the bath as quickly as possible. And it was done so quickly that even she had to admit that it was the feeling of "bathing but not showering" for the past 7 years.

After bathing, Lauren needs to quickly get dressed to avoid being exposed to cold air, which increases the burning sensation on the skin's surface, and actions such as drying the skin with a towel or shaving will also increase the sensation. feeling of pain.

Lauren felt very uncomfortable after her skin came into contact with water. Even if she did not care about personal hygiene and gave up bathing, it could not relieve the pain on her skin.

Humidity from the air, hot tub or swimming pool all irritated Lauren, and even the sweat from her body made her skin feel uncomfortable.

In the most difficult times, she can only choose to use paper towels to quickly dry the water on her body, and dry shampoo becomes her "best friend", helping to reduce the pain when she washes her hair. .

Lauren's life became better when she found a group of people with the same disease on social networks - where she could seek encouragement from patients "in the same situation".

"Honestly, avoiding bathing made me feel very uncomfortable, but I found other people with similar symptoms, and their concern made it more bearable," the girl confided. White.

"Aqueous urticaria" is extremely rare, with only 37 cases recorded in official medical statistics and no more than 100 cases reported with similar symptoms worldwide in reports. of media.

The cause of water allergy is unknown, but some experts believe it may be due to an immune response the body produces to certain allergens or chemicals in the body. water (not caused by the water itself).

Most cases occur spontaneously, and the patient has no family history of hydro urticaria. Symptoms of this allergy can include skin redness, burning or stinging sensations, rashes, lesions on the skin's surface, and itching.

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