A woman takes ibuprofen for menstrual cramps and falls into a coma, losing only 40% of her vision.

Taking an ibuprofen tablet to relieve menstrual pain put a woman between life and death in Brazil. Jacqueline Gmak, 31, was in a coma for 17 days with her body covered in blisters due to a severe allergic reaction to the medication, according to the report. Sun.

Itchy eyes 48 hours after taking the medicine became a signal to Jacqueline that something was wrong. The next morning, when she woke up, she had blood blisters in her mouth and was hospitalized as a result. Blisters quickly spread throughout the body.

“It was like I was burned from the inside. I didn’t know what happened to me. I noticed that my whole body was bandaged, my vision was completely blurred, and there was a tube in my throat, but I did not feel any pain. Only then did I begin to understand that I was very weak and that something very serious had happened to me,” said Jacqueline, waking up from a coma.

At the hospital he was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome. The rare condition corresponds to a severe reaction of the body to epilepsy medications, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory painkillers such as ibuprofen.

Apart from her skin, Jacqueline also had severe vision problems and currently has only 40% vision.

Jacqueline underwent surgery for the first time in 2011 and has since undergone more than 24 surgeries, including a corneal transplant, amniotic membrane transplant and stem cell transplant.