Teen whose lips ballooned after apparent allergic reaction to a BURGER posts hilarious selfies

Teen whose lips ballooned after apparent allergic reaction to a BURGER posts hilarious selfies

  • Amiyah Evans, from Clinton, Mississippi, had eaten a burger on Friday night
  • The next morning, she woke up with a slightly swollen lip – which soon swelled
  • Doctors still don’t know what caused her reaction, Amiyah’s lips have now calmed
  • Her social media, on the other hand, is now blowing up 

An 18-year-old’s mouth ballooned to quadruple the size after she ate a hamburger – and she documented it with a hilariously irreverent, self-deprecating thread on Twitter.

Amiyah Evans, from Clinton, Mississippi, had eaten a burger on Friday night.

The next morning, she woke up with a slightly swollen lip – which soon swelled.

As her reaction developed, Amiyah started taking photos and videos, astonishing and confused.

Though doctors still don’t know what caused her reaction, Amiyah’s lips have now calmed. Her social media, on the other hand, is now blowing up. 

Amiyah Evans, from Clinton, Mississippi, had eaten a burger on Friday night. The next morning, she woke up with a slightly swollen lip – which soon swelled. Pictured: the early stages

Soon her lips were enormous and she was struggling to get words out

Soon her lips were enormous and she was struggling to get words out

Soon her lips were enormous and she was struggling to get words out

At first, Amiyah told Buzzfeed, she was just waiting for her swelling to go down.

But it escalated quickly.  

‘It got bigger every hour. It just kept growing and then I went to a clinic around 4.00 when I thought it was getting out of my hand,’ Amiyah told Buzzfeed.

She told the site she went to the doctor, who gave her Benadryl, a standard treatment for allergic reactions, but that barely quelled her symptoms. 

Three hours later she was in hospital, struggling to get words out through her now totally swollen lips. 

Changing her Twitter name to ‘miyah w/ da phat lips’, Amiyah poked fun at herself. 

‘lesson of the day: stick to what you know. buy things you always buy.. it doesn’t hurt to try new foods but SHEESH. just pray you don’t look like me in the end,’ she wrote in her pinned tweet, punctuated with crying laughing selfies.

In another post of selfies, she wrote: ‘I LOOK SO STUPPIIDDDDDDDDD.’ 

Changing her Twitter name to 'miyah w/ da phat lips', Amiyah poked fun at herself

Changing her Twitter name to ‘miyah w/ da phat lips’, Amiyah poked fun at herself

Amiyah told Buzzfeed: ‘I didn’t really panic about it at first because my siblings were making fun of me anyway, so I just made a big joke out of it.’

The only thing doctors could trace Amiyah’s reaction to was ground beef, though it’s unclear why.

Meat allergies are certainly on the rise in the US, but Amiyah hasn’t ever suffered any kind of reaction, let alone such an extreme one. 

Unless Amiyah had suffered a tick bite recently, which can trigger late onset meat allergies, it’s unlikely she had swiftly developed one.  

Read more at DailyMail.co.uk