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A Black woman from the United Kingdom said she went to three different emergency rooms while suffering from a “horrific” skin disease before receiving treatment because doctors didn’t think her symptoms were severe enough.
Kanayo Dike-Oduah, 27, told BBC that it was only when she was seen by a doctor with darker skin that she was finally admitted to the hospital. “I feel failed,” she said.
“They literally said, ‘If you hadn’t come today, you would have died,’” Dike-Oduah recalled.
Kanayo Dike-Oduah, 27, nearly died of a rare skin disorder. (Photos: BBC screenshot)
About a year ago, she first came down with symptoms of a rare skin disorder called Stevens-Johnson syndrome. The disease carries a mortality rate of up to 50 percent in severe cases. It is most often a reaction to medications and starts with flu-like symptoms before progressing to spreading painful rashes and blisters.
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Skin cancer can be more difficult to diagnose in skin of color but new initiatives are increasing representation in dermatology. By Jessica Chia Julia Noni
Ilia J. Smith, a 40-year-old nurse practitioner in Dallas, never suspected she’d be confronted with a life-threatening health concern in her thirties. She was a medical professional. She ate well, worked out regularly. Sure, she spent a lot of time basking in the sun wearing low-SPF tanning oils, but as a Black woman, she wasn’t worried about sun protection. Several years earlier, a friend of hers, who worked as a physician’s assistant in a dermatology practice, flagged a mole on her thigh during a day at the spa, but Smith brushed it off as a birthmark.
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