A YOUNG MOM has tragically passed away after getting a cheap £9 lip piercing which was later placed in a back street salon.
Andressa Souza, 20, spent 24 days in intensive care in Dourados, Brazil, after her piercing became infected, leaving her in a coma.
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The 20-year-old mother who developed sepsis from the piercing died on Saturday at the Hospital da Vida
Her devastated mother Maria Aparecida da Silva Oliveira, 47, told local media that the infection entered her bloodstream and traveled to her brain.
She said medics stated the infection affected 37 percent of her daughter’s brain, Northeastern Diary reports.
Maria said her daughter paid £9 (BRL 60) for the piercing, but she has no idea if the establishment was licensed to carry out the procedure.
She said, “She didn’t tell me anything about whether the person was a professional.”
Maria added: “Around June 13, she began to feel unwell, with a severe headache and fever.
“We thought it was dengue because there was an outbreak here in Itaporã.
“We took her to the doctor and until then we thought that was it because my other son had it too.”
Andresa leaves behind a husband and a three-year-old son.
Maria said: “He is also inconsolable because, however little he is, he has seen his mother in that situation. It is very difficult for him.”
The woman was buried on Sunday in the Cristo Redentor cemetery.
Last year a 15-year-old schoolgirl died after getting her own eyebrow pierced at home.
And a woman who wanted that get a cute ear piercing was eventually rushed to hospital.
another woman had to spend six weeks in a foreign hospital after getting an ear piercing.
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