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A mum-of-two ended up in hospital after having suffered an allergic reaction to fillers that made her lips swell to six times their size.
Lauren Evens was given antihistamines, but her swelling became so severe that they could no more talk and her airways started to close.
Doctors at Countess of Chester hospital rushed the trainee beauty therapist to the resuscitation unit and injected her with adrenaline to save her.
Lauren, from Chester, Cheshire, had her filler topped up a week ago and thought everything was fine, but had her terrifying reaction an hour or so later.
She said: 'My lips appeared as if a baboon's bum. They went around six times bigger than their normal size. It was very painful.'
Lauren couldn't close her mouth and struggled to speak as she endured a six hour wait at A&E.
They gave her an antihistamine which helped the swelling go down a bit, but things took got worse and she was rushed to resus.
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'I went to sleep plus they woke me up to give me more antihistamine and they asserted these were getting larger and larger. It was scary,' she added.
Lauren asserted she'd have her lip filler refilled around every six months, and topped them up with just under one ml this time around.
Within four hours of having the process, her lips became 'huge'. She reached a healthcare facility around 10:30pm and didn't leave until the following afternoon.
She said she was sent home with antihistamnies and that even though the swelling took 72 hours to subside, her lips were still painful five days later.
Lauren said: 'I've were built with a lot of lip filler and coverings before and had it previously around four weeks ago and didn't have a reaction.
'It's unexplained why this happened. Apparently at all ages and at any point you can develop an allergic reaction to something.
'I won't be getting lip filler again anytime soon. I wish to have the allergy test to determine precisely what I'm allergic to, the thought that it could happen again is very scary.
She added: 'I get lip fillers for any confidence boost, I would not tell people not to have them done if they want to get them done but I'd say be cautious and it is more the truth that an allergic reaction may come on anytime.'
