He was taking it for his acne. We also have a woman whose daughter went blind after taking ibuprofen. The eyes will get puffy, swollen, and gritty. There will usually also be cracking or small blisters on the lips and mouth. Usually the person has a fever and red patches on the skin.
Most people think they have the flu.
Or the chicken pox as Jean and her daughter found out. Chicken pox is the most common misdiagnosis, at least for children. For Sherry Callejo, a secretary at the University of Hawaii, her doctor's ignorance about SJS almost cost her her life. Callejo took a fourteen day course of a sulfa drug, for a sinus infection. About two days after I finished the treatment, my face and lips got tingly and splotchy.