A mum feared she'd contracted HIV when a beautician 'used a dirty needle' for anti-wrinkle jabs - and giant boils erupted across her face. Kat Ramsey has been getting 'confidence-boosting' anti-wrinkle jabs for the past four years to make her look younger and relieve tension headaches. But around a week after an at-home appointment in March the 41-year-old said she was unable to get out of bed and rang 111 who suspected she had contracted sepsis.
Large boils erupted around Kat's eyes, forehead and frown line the following day, which she claims are 'the exact places' the £60 anti-wrinkle injections had been administered. Kat admits four oozing marble-sized boils on her face lowered her confidence so much she refused to leave home because people would stare at her. After a four-week course of antibiotics and a dermatologist consultation, Kat said she was told they were a result of 'cross-contamination'.
Terrified, Kat urgently booked an HIV test that came back negative, but one stubborn boil still remains and she fears the scars from the others will never fade. The mum-of-two, who says she's never experienced issues with the jabs before, is keen to encourage people to thoroughly research their practitioners before going under the needle. Kat said: "A week or so after the injections, I got really ill.
I couldn't walk or get out of bed so I contacted 111 and managed to get antibiotics that day. "The day after big boils on my face started appearing, they thought it could be sepsi.
