Photos of Severe Allergic Reactions

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#1 – This woman got a little too close to dust mites

#2 – The danger of eyelash tinting…

#3 – The guy who thought drinking Kombucha was a good idea

#4 – This woman who got a balloon head from hair dye

#5 – And this woman, who suffered a similar fate from hair dye

#6 – And this woman, who is allergic to the acids in apples…which are also found in hair dye

#7 – This girl who got hive-leggings from taking the wrong antibiotics

#8 – This girl whose spider allergy turned her into Quasimodo

#9 – This girl who still has no idea what turned her into a Donald Duck–Homer Simpson mashup

#10 – This person who got scaly legs instead of smooth legs after shaving with a nickel razor

#11 – The person who couldn’t even see the cashews that did this to their face

#12 – This girl whose nickel necklace left her in the ER with a big ol’ rash necklace too

#13 – This person whose arm looks like the aftermath of a mosquito convention

#14 – This woman who shouldn’t have cuddled with her dog

#15 – This woman who touched the wrong leaves

 

#16 – This girl who gets golf-ball-sized eyelids from dust

#17 – This person who will never go around balloons again

#18 – This girl who could barely even see what her bee allergy looked like

#19 – This girl who was left with resting-seasonal-allergy-face

#20 – This girl who quite literally blew up from an encounter with tree nuts

#21 – This girl who didn’t know you could be allergic to mosquitos

#22 – This girl who is actually allergic to the sun and forgot her hat

#23 – This lady whose tea tree oil facial went very, very wrong

#24 – This girl who is maybe allergic to Cuba

#25 – This girl who proves that in some cases, you really shouldn’t pet that dog

#26 – This woman whose reaction to shellfish looked like botched lip injections

#27 – This girl who still doesn’t know what gave her this ~naturally rosy~ glow

#28 – This girl who literally needs her latte made with soy milk

#29 – This student who thought their amoxicillin reaction was a stress rash from college classes

#30 – This girl who should’ve gone on vacation in Seattle instead of Florida

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