24-year-old Marian Adejokun, a former beauty queen, of Nigerian descent has been left scarred for life after a horrific reaction to eye drops which left her skin peeling off.
She spent more than 3-weeks in intensive care at the Royal London Hospital where doctors diagnosed her with life-threatening medical condition called Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
The condition causes the top layer of skin to die and then shed - and is triggered by an allergic reaction to medication.
Symptoms include skin rashes, blisters in the mouth, ears and nose and swelling of the eyelids. If left untreated the condition can result in death - or trigger possible complications such as blindness and lung damage.
Miss Adejokun's ordeal began five years ago, in 2011, when she developed an itchy eye. Her GP sent her to the chemist to get some eye drops which she used before going to bed. But the next morning she was horrified to wake up with lumps all over her body.
As her condition began to deteriorate she was rushed to hospital. As her skin began to shed she was put into a medically induced coma - and doctors even warned her devastated mother she may not survive.
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