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When Mandy Suzanne Smith’s son complained about having poison oak on his foot, it actually turned out to be something much, much, worse.
Smith took to Facebook to explain the entire ordeal, saying that when she picked her son Zachary up from school, she noticed a rash on his foot, so she put cream on it and figured it’d go away overnight. But the following morning Zachary started to break out in a terrible rash and was running a high fever. Smith rushed her son to emergency room and believed he was suffering from some sort of viral infection.
After the medication didn’t work, Smith saw the rash beginning to spread and cover his entire little body. “His eyes were blood shot red, and his lips were bright red and were beginning to crack and peal. We knew something was not right so me and my mom brought him to Kdmc,” Smith wrote.
When the nurse practitioner saw Zachary, she believed that Zachary had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS). Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a life-threatening skin condition that develops after having a severe allergic reaction to drugs. SJS causes your skin to blister and peel off, and it quite literally burns its victims from the inside out.
When Smith asked the practitioner if her son would be ok, she responded saying, “I don’t know, he is a very sick little boy.”
Smith learned that the medication she was giving Zachary for migraines called lamotrigine, was actually what was causing him to have an allergic reaction. “I was giving him the very thing that was killing him and had no idea,” Smith said.
Once they realized the medicine was the culprit, Zachary was transferred to a children’s hospital, and “with every day that passed we watched him get worse and worse and still felt like we had no answers, “ the heartbroken mother wrote.
At this point, Zachary’s skin had gotten so bad that it began to blister and bubble up, and it was actually coming off. Doctors put Zachary in a medically induced coma, and during this time his burned skin would be removed to allow new skin to form underneath.
There was nothing else for the family to do at this point but pray that their son would be ok. “We checked in and I went to my room. When I walked in I seen a Bible laying out on the desk and was opened to John 9. So I started to read it. It was a verse about how Jesus had healed a blind man by putting mud on his eyes and then telling him to go to Siloam and wash it off, and when he did his sight was restored. It was then and there at that exact moment that I had received my reassurance,” Smith said.
“I knew this was the lord telling me, ‘I’ve got this, put your faith in me and I will deliver’ and that is exactly what he did,” she said. Sure enough, when Zachary woke up he told his mom that he was never asleep during the coma and that a strong angel named Samson held him in his arms and scratched his back.
“Zachary’s body had been 90% affected. He also had infection in his lungs. He was very very sick but after being there a month he was alive, awake, and he was healing! The lord put his hands on him and restored him just as the blind man was restored,” Smith wrote.
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Young Boy Miraculously Survives Rare Skin Disease is an article from: LifeDaily