I 'nearly died' after an allergic reaction to lip filler left me looking like Snoopy | The Sun

A STUDENT has told how she was left with a massively distorted face after an allergic reaction to lip filler caused her cheeks and jaw to swell up.

Horrified Isis de Oliveira Almeida Pinheiro, 20, from Palmas, Tocantins state, northern Brazil, was left looking like the cartoon dog Snoopy by the freak reaction.

The terrifying reaction set in just minutes after hyaluronidase – generally used to dissolve old fillers – was injected into her lip on 1st September.

The psychology student posted footage of the mishap to TikTok the following day – and it quickly racked up an astonishing 1.5 million views.

Isis explained how she had gone to get hyaluronic acid injected into her lips for a third time.

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However, she was left with one side of her lip fuller than the other, so she had hyaluronidase injected to balance the hyaluronic acid.

But she had no idea that she would suffer an extreme allergic reaction to the enzyme.

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She told local media: "First we tried to shape it, because hyaluronic acid in the first days can be shaped, but there was an excessive accumulation of the product and it didn't work.

"We also tried perforating to squeeze it out but it didn't work out. Then the last time I went, we applied hyaluronidase, which I later learnt has a very strong allergic potential."

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Isis said that her face started to swell uncontrollably as soon as she was given the enzyme.

"In an hour everything was already very swollen," she continued. "I rushed to hospital, they gave me adrenaline, steroids, anti-allergic drugs and there was time for everything to calm down."

She added: "I was very scared because it happened very fast. And I was feeling a lot of pain. My mouth hurt a lot, I couldn't see because my eye had closed a lot.

"I kept thinking that I was going to end up with some after-effect, that my face would end up not going back to normal.

"I was very scared, thinking 'my God, what did I do?' and very scared of something worse happening."

Isis revealed that it took four days for her face to go back to normal and says she doesn't plan on getting any more cosmetic procedures any time soon.

She explained that she decided to post footage of her mishap to social media to warn others of the possible risks of such procedures, but she had no idea that it would go viral.

She said: "I didn't expect it to have such an impact. I posted it to alert people because it was very dangerous and I hadn't seen anything about it."

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Dermatologist Camila Novak – who was not involved in the procedure – explained that had Isis not sought immediate help, she could have died.

She said: "An important part of the population can suffer swelling of the mucous membranes, of the lips, of the eyes, it can cause oedema of the glottis, close breathing, it can cause allergies in the whole body."

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