For weeks, 32-year-old mother Laura Gómez was plagued by unbearable itching. Believing it was just an allergy, she switched soaps, avoided certain foods, and tried creams and antihistamines prescribed by a dermatologist. But nothing helped.
“The itching was desperate,” Laura recalls. “I scratched until I bled. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t focus—but I never imagined what was coming.”
What doctors eventually discovered would change her life forever.