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Mother hopes to designate August as SJS Awareness Month

august 2010 100x100When Kelly Samson of Toledo, Ohio, first noticed spots breaking out on her daughter’s skin, she assumed her daughter had come down with the chickenpox. She was wrong. The young girl was diagnosed with something far more serious, a serious skin reaction known as Stevens Johnson Syndrome ().

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Wife files lawsuit against drug maker

Amy Clanton says her husband Ralph would not have taken Phenytoin to control his seizures if he knew the drug could have serious side effects, according to the West Virginia’s The Record. Without forewarning of the potential dangers, Ralph took the prescription medication and a month later noticed odd skin disruptions on his body. As his condition worsened, his eyelid peeled off while Amy applied eye drops to his eyes.

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