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A woman has claimed she was placed in a 17-day coma after suffering a rare reaction to ibuprofen that caused her to 'burn from the inside out'. 

Jaqueline Gmack, from Papanduva in Brazil, took the over-the-counter tablets in 2011 to help relieve her period cramps. 

Within just 48 hours, the now 31-year-old suffered a mild itch in her eye and blood blisters in her mouth. 

After rushing to hospital, her symptoms rapidly escalated and she developed blisters across her face which left her unable to see properly. 

Medics revealed she was suffering from Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and placed her in an induced coma. 

The rare skin condition causes the immune system to overreact to a trigger, such as a drug, and attack healthy skin, mucous, the eyes and genitals. 

Even today, however, Ms Gmack's vision has only restored to around 40 per cent of what it was despite more than a dozen surgeries.

Further tests are still required to determine if the reaction has caused permanent damage. 

Recalling her ordeal after she woke from the coma, Ms Gmack said: 'It was like I'd been burned from the inside out.

'I didn't know what had happened to me.

'I noticed my entire body was bandaged, my vision was completely blurred, and I had a tube down my throat, but I wasn't in any pain.

'Only then did the penny start to drop and I realised that I was very weak, and that something very serious had happened to me.' 

Ms Gmack is not believed to have suffered a reaction from ibuprofen before or have any underlying health conditions.

SJS often begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by a red or purple rash on the skin that spreads and forms blisters.

It does the same to the mucous membrane, reproductive organs and eyeballs.