These days, cosmetic procedures have become increasingly prevalent, despite their significant risks and demanding maintenance requirements for effectiveness. Similarly, this UK woman had an awful reaction to a lip filler dissolver, making undergoing a cosmetic treatment difficult. A 24-year-old woman was left “gasping for air” as her face expanded to double its size moments after receiving the injection in January.
According to the Metro, Shaunna Harris felt she was going to die when her beauty therapist gave her a dose of lip dissolver and her throat closed up. She previously underwent two lip filler injections to enhance her pout. She had 0.5 ml of lip filler for the first time at the age of 18, and 1 ml more at the age of 22. She made the decision to dissolve her current filler earlier this year before adding another 1ml. However, shortly after the dissolver was administered, Harris suffered a severe allergic reaction.
Harris’s aesthetician understood how bad her allergic response was, so she drove her to A&E, where she received an IV and an adrenaline shot. The Welsh radiographer from Bridgend was having increasing difficulty breathing and believed she would pass away on her way to the hospital.
According to Harris, “I went to have my lip filler dissolved and I didn’t think anything of it because I’d had lip filler put in in the past and it was all fine.”
It all started when the 1 millilitre she was trying to dissolve “migrated.” She opted to dissolve the migrating filler and inject another 1ml.
After her aesthetician gave her the dissolver, she said that she immediately realised something wasn’t right since her lips “blew up.” After asking the aesthetician if that was normal, she said, “Yeah, people’s lips do tend to swell up,” but Harris didn’t think it was.
Her eyelids soon began to break out in hives, which she described as “itchy and painful” within the following five minutes. After ten minutes, her face became bloated and inflated to the point that she was unable to see.
“My face was completely blown up and swollen so [the aesthetician] took my car and drove me to A&E. I looked unrecognisable,” she shared with the news outlet.
She said that she had hives all over her body and that she could feel her skin “burning.”
She claimed that she had trouble breathing as soon as she arrived at the hospital. She was so out of breath that she was unable to respond to inquiries, and the nurses were all quite concerned.
Her breathing became better when they gave her the adrenaline because it cleared her airways. But for days thereafter, her face was bloated. It seemed to her that her face “wouldn’t go down.”
“I didn’t go out of the house for three days.”
Doctors informed the Metro that Harris’s response to having her lip filler dissolved was caused by an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.
Aestheticians frequently utilise the soluble protein enzyme hyaluronidase to break down the hyaluronic acid that makes up lip fillers.
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