A woman had to undergo a liver transplant after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening condition.
Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after last Thanksgiving.
About a month later, Smith started to have stomach pains but was reluctant to go to the hospital because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to CBS New York, Smith described her symptoms as “stomach pain. I felt like I kind of lost appetite.”
“I didn’t want to go to the hospital with COVID going on,” she explained to the outlet. But the pain got so bad that “it got to the point where I felt like I didn’t have a choice.”
“I was just drinking water, I couldn’t hold the water down,” Smith told ABC 7, revealing that her symptoms escalated so much that she “started to throw up blood.”
Her sister took her to Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Jan. 12, where doctors quickly assessed that she needed a liver transplant and was suffering from fulminant Hepatitis B, ABC 7 reported.
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Source: Linda Ikeji
