When 28-year-old Kalyan resident Heena Khan took a seemingly harmless antibiotic for cough and cold, seldom did she know that she will be battling for her life in hospital a day later. Khan has been in Saifee Hospital, Charni Road, for the past 10 days. She has contracted what's called Stevens Johnson or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome (TENS) , which has led to an adverse drug reaction causing her skin to burn from inside out and peel off.
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) , also known as Lyell's syndrome ,is a rare, life-threatening skin condition that is usually caused by a reaction to drugs.The disease causes the top layer of skin (the epidermis) to detach from the lower layers of the skin (the dermis), all over the body, leaving the body susceptible to severe infection. The mortality rate ranges from 25-30%, and death usually occurs as a result of sepsis and…
