A British lady has finally been redeemed of a pretty bad dilemma - she cried 'crocodile tears' every time she ate. Wonder whatcured her? Botox injections!
Patricia Webster, 58, sobs uncontrollably at every meal or snack.The tears are a side effect of a medical condition, known as crocodile tears syndrome, which was ruining her life.
The condition is caused by dodgy nerve fibres that work when she chews. They should help her mouth soften food and produce saliva.
Consequently sufferers cannot help but cry when they chew and swallow food.
But Mrs Webster has been cured by Botox, usually used as a cosmetic procedure to get rid of wrinkles, which has been injected in her eyelids.
"Over the years, the tears and a sobbing movement would just come when I ate. I thought it was just when I ate very hot foods, but it happened with everything," The Telegraph quoted Webster, as saying.
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The 58-year-old mother-of-three from the village of Boxley, near Maidstone in Kent, was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in 1991, which attacks all nerves in the body.
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Now Webster attends Maidstone Hospital clinic for regular Botox jabs to keep the condition under control.
Source-ANI
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