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Allergic to water

  • Writer: ECL
    ECL
  • Jun 28, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jul 29, 2021

Niah Selway, 23, from Hastings, in the UK, suffers from 'aquagenic pruritus', which means she is allergic to water. Everything from rain to her own sweat, urine and tears burn her skin. As you can maybe imagine, this makes her daily life extremely difficult.


Niah has her own YouTube channel and regularly uploads videos about her condition and how it impacts her daily life. Here is one of her videos. Please take a look.



Questions:

a) Are you allergic to anything?

b) If you have an allergy, how do you try and deal with it?


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