15-year-old Alyssa Misemer wanted to look good for her homecoming dance, so she decided to get a tan.
Alyssa’s mother, Dawn Misemer was against her daughter using a tanning bed because of its dangers, so they decided on a sunless tan.
“Spray tan would be fine, it would be safe,” Misemer told fox4kc.com.
Alyssa chose to go to Sun Spa in Platte City, as she had been there before and she said the spa didn’t make her sign anything. “They just had me sign in, and I went back and had it done,” Alyssa describes. But immediately upon receiving the tan, Alyssa says she started feeling itchy, and that night she started to break out in hives. The pain got progressively worse, and for two weeks, Alyssa even had trouble sleeping.
“It was miserable,” she said. “I would just — from here down be covered in hives.”
But what caused this terrible reaction? Alyssa told the news site that she’s severely allergic to nuts, and her mom discovered that the spray tan contained walnut oils. “Right when I found out that it had walnut, the tan had walnut extract in it, I was terrified that I was going to die from it,” said Alyssa.
While most self-tanners have caramel in it, others have nut oils in the bronzer, and now Alyssa and her mom want to warn others of potential dangers. “I don’t want anyone out there to have to go through the same thing that I did because it was extremely miserable and definitely not something I’ll ever forget,” Alyssa said. Alyssa believes that the formula used in her spray tan must have changed since the last time she was there because she did not have this negative reaction.
The Misemers say they tried to get in touch with Sun Spa to have them post a warning about the spray tan, but the spa says they will not be posting warnings about the dangers their spray tans may cause.
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