Rare Disease Causes Woman to Grow Nails Instead of hair
Written by DJ Special Blend from Chicago on August 9, 2012
Shanyna Isom is the only person in the world with the rare skin disease that causes her to grow human nails in places where she should grow hair. The 28 year old woman first symptoms came in 2009, when she had an allergic reaction to steroids prescribed for an asthma attack. Doctors are baffled.
“It’s almost as if it’s a nightmare and you’re trying to wake up out of that,” Isom told WLBT in Jackson, Miss., in a recent interview.
Her nightmare began in 2009, when Isom was a student studying criminal justice. At the time, she suffered from an asthma attack and was given steroids, the station reports.
Soon thereafter, Isom developed an allergic reaction from the medication and noticed her legs turning black with bumps.
Local doctors weren’t sure what to think, and treated her for a range of ailments from eczema to a staph infection. Everything came back negative.
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