An 11-year-old girl developed an allergy to her own tears and sweat (6 photos)

An 11-year-old girl developed a skin condition that left her allergic to her own tears and sweat. Because of this, the little girl had to give up her favorite dances.





11-year-old Australian Summa Williams was hospitalized back in late 2022 after her skin became cracked, red and inflamed. At first, the girl's mother thought that her daughter had a severe sunburn: her skin was covered with crusts and she was constantly itching. At the hospital, the girl was diagnosed with staphylococcus. According to her mother, when Summa took antibiotics, the skin on her face and body “peeled off like a snake,” from head to toe, and after taking a shower, the bathtub was full of skin.



As a result, the girl was diagnosed with eczema, and she developed an allergy to her own tears and sweat. Now the girl is receiving injections and is undergoing treatment. There are positive results, but sometimes eczema is very noticeable on the face. Summa's main pain is that due to her illness she cannot practice her favorite dances.

"When she looks at all her dance friends, she gets upset and asks, 'Why can't I have skin like them?' “It’s terrible,” says the girl’s mother.



Australian children suffer from eczema more often than others in the world. This year's extreme heat is putting even more children at risk. According to doctors, eczema affects up to 30 percent of children and 10 percent of adults to one degree or another, with many citing weather as the main cause of the disease. There is currently no effective treatment strategy for eczema, psoriasis or dermatitis, so it is very important for people suffering from these conditions to keep symptoms under control.