A teenager was blind by a mystery illness sparked from squeezing a seemingly harmless nose spot. Mary Ann Regacho, 17, suffered severe facial swelling after simply popping a pimple on her nose last year.
The youngster originally thought the growth was a simple spot caused by hormones after she gave birth to a baby boy at age 16.
But, when she squeezed the spot, Mary said it grew painful days later before it started spreading across her face. The teenager, from Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, said it "like a balloon inflating".
Now, the growth has mostly engulfed her face and has started to lead to blindless as the sever swelling reaches her eyes. Mary said: "I thought it was only a common pimple, but it hurt so much I could not sleep at
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