An Argentine woman died after she reportedly injected
herself with Vaseline in an attempt to give herself a breast augmentation.
Sonia Perez Llanzon, 39, suffered a pulmonary embolism -- or
blot clot in her lungs -- and died several weeks after she reportedly injected
herself with the petroleum jelly, according to a Huffington Post translation of
La Capital.
In an article dated March 18, the Argentine newspaper
reports that Llanzon went to a Santa Rosa hospital after she developed
difficulty breathing. Doctors said she initially denied injecting herself, but
later admitted that she'd tried to give herself a breast augmentation.
"In all my medical career, I've never seen a case like
this. The human body has antibodies to remove bacteria and viruses, but it
hasn't got any mechanisms against this type of product," Julio Pla
Cardenas, chief of surgery at Lucio Molas Hospital in Santa Rosa said,
according to Sipse.com.
The Vaseline entered the woman's blood stream, where it
caused blood clots that eventually traveled to her lungs, doctors said. Llanzon
died as a result of pulmonary embolism following a month-long hospitalization.
An exact date of death was not given in the La Capital
report, but a Facebook post by her son, Kevin Berazategui, indicates that
Llanzon died March 6.
"It has been two days since you haven't been here in
this world... I will love you forever. The 20 years I spent by your side were
beautiful," Berazategui wrote in a Facebook post dated March 8, according
to a HuffPost translation. "I'm going to live my life as a demonstration
of your efforts as a fighter, as my lion-hearted mother.
Llanzon is remembered as an athlete, a marathon runner and a
boxer.
HUFFPOST
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