15-year old girl dies from deadly infection after eyebrow piercing
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: July 12, 2021 10:00 PM2021-07-12T22:00:00+5:302021-07-12T22:00:00+5:30
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A teenager has died after developing a horrific infection from a botched self-piercing at home.
Izabela Eduarda de Sousa pierced her eyebrow with the help of a pal in the municipality of Engenheiro Caldas in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
But a killer infection savaged the 15-year-old and just days after the piercing she was raced to hospital where she had four cardiac arrests.
Tragically, Izabela had asked her mum for permission to carry out the procedure - and despite her mum saying no, she went ahead with it anyway.
Her mum was not the only family member against the piercing. Her aunt, Jurciene de Souza, revealed that the whole family was against it.
That did not stop Izabela from going through with the home procedure, and three days after making the piercing, she started to develop several symptoms.
The area around her eyes became very swollen and irritated and she was rushed to hospital where she suffered four cardiac arrests.
With her body having rejected the piercing, her health quickly plummeted and she was raced again to a better-equipped hospital.
She spent a week there, where she was incubated, but she eventually died, to the devastation and disbelief of her family.