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Eva Uhlin’s nightmare began as a fever and a viral infection, and a recommendation that the teenage girl take acetaminophen to combat the symptoms. Then her face fell off.
That is not an exaggeration or a joke. One day, Eva was a normal 15-year-old Swede on vacation with her family. When she came down with a virus, she took acetaminophen — the generic equivalent of Tylenol — and when the symptoms got worse, she went to the hospital. The doctors told her to take more acetaminophen.
When Eva’s parents brought her back to the hospital the next day, her face was a mass of watery blisters. When a doctor touched them, the skin sloughed off on his hands.
For a teenage girl with dreams of becoming an actress, it was devastating for Eva to see her skin falling off and her face and other parts of her body covered with oozing sores and ugly scabs. But she told Lauer that she got over her initial horror quickly.
“I was so determined that I was going to get through it and get better. When you’re in there, you just have to deal with it,” she said.