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Thank you. My son, you know, got ready to go to work. He took a shower. He brushed his teeth. All the way to work, which is not too far from here, he started feeling itching. And his eyes wereching, his body was itching, he was starting to break out to rash, then started turning into

like a fiery feeling, like his skin was on fire.

And then his eyes started to burn.

Then within seconds, they started to like swell.

They were swelling so bad that he had like barely a slit that you

could see his eyeball then they took him to his manager because he got concerned his throat

started to close up he was having a hard time breathing he called me he was scared and I could hear

it so when I drove back to pull up to the ambulance and I see him in the stretcher, his face is completely swollen, he's got tears coming out of his eyes, almost like they were being squeezed out.

He was swollen. His whole body was full of a rash that looked like he was just sunburned. It was all red, all. And to look at the paramedic's face

and see them worry, my heart just sunk because I knew that this was that bad. It's still, I mean,

it makes me emotional just remembering that again, you know, just I was terrified and I had to keep it cool.

And that was from taking a shower.

From taking a shower and brushing his teeth.

My reaction was very similar symptoms too, where I had a rash and I had a really bad burning sensation.

It literally felt like my skin was on fire.

And nauseated, vomiting, headache, fatigue.

So you had symptoms enough to go to the ER though.

Oh yeah, I did.

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