In the News – Nails Growing Instead of Hair on Woman’s Scalp and Face

Snippet from the article:

Doctors at Johns Hopkins have a medical mystery on their hands, a condition that is causing nails to grow out of a woman’s face.

The illness came on after the woman suffered an allergic reaction to steroids used to control asthma. Now, Shanyna Isom, is the focus of a study at the famed Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

These pictures show the tiny fingernails growing in patches on the 28-year old Tennessee woman’s body. Doctors say she produces 12 times the number of skin cells per hair follicle, and that suffocates her skin.

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Nothing I can add here. This is just an extremely unusual reaction to an asthma treatment. Click the article to see the photos.