A teenager says she can’t leave the house and has been forced to break up with her boyfriend after pus-filled boils took over her face.
Kirsten Cowell, 19, has been struggling for months with the mystery condition, which has left her with two-centimetre-deep holes that ooze pus and are covered in dark brown scabs.
She first started to notice painful, pus-filled boils appearing on her face three months ago, but expected them to disappear on their own.
But Kirsten, from Ammanford, in Wales, now has scabs and holes across her entire face. Her mum Allison, 47, suspects that she has pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) - a condition which causes large open sores to grow all over the body, rotting away skin and tissue.
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