Ladbible X Whatsapp
  • iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Woman Left Looking Like 'Sloth From The Goonies' After Suffering Sun Poisoning At Festival

Home> News

Updated 10:19 25 Jul 2022 GMT+1Published 09:48 25 Jul 2022 GMT+1

Woman Left Looking Like 'Sloth From The Goonies' After Suffering Sun Poisoning At Festival

She had to be hooked up to an IV drip after she woke up to find her face had doubled in size

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

A woman who left ‘looking like Sloth from The Goonies’ after getting ‘sun poisoning’ at a music festival is warning others to slather on the sunscreen this summer. 

Ruby Brewer’s face doubled in size with her eyes swelling so much she could barely open them after attending Love Supreme Festival in Glynde Place in East Sussex with her pals on 2 July without putting any suncream on. 

The 23-year-old from Bromley, London, said the SPF that was in her moisturiser was most likely sweated off in the heat, leaving her exposed to the sun. 

Kennedy News and Media

Advert

Music-loving Ruby said she woke up two days after the festival to find her face had ballooned to twice its size. 

She rushed to A&E where hooked up to an IV drip containing antihistamines and steroids to reduce the swelling, initially believed to be caused by an allergic reaction.

It took three days until her face went back to normal size and after researching her symptoms Ruby believes she had a severe case of sunburn known as ‘sun poisoning’. 

She said: "When I woke up, I went to open my eyes and that's when I realised I couldn't open them fully.

"I was really shocked when I looked in the mirror and saw how big my face was.

Advert

"My face had doubled in size and there was just a small slit that I could see [through].

Kennedy News and Media

"My skin was all blotchy and red and my arms and neck had rashes on them.

"I looked like Sloth from The Goonies or even a chipmunk as my cheeks were so large.”

Although she had spent all day in the sunshine, Ruby says she didn’t experience any discomfort until the following morning when her neck was a bit itchy. 

Advert

But on the Monday morning, she woke up to discover she couldn’t fully open her eyes and her face had doubled in size. 

Kennedy News and Media

At the hospital she was treated for an allergic reaction, but neither Ruby nor her mum could determine the cause of the reaction. 

Ruby said: "When I got home I said to my mum 'it can't be something that I've eaten because I didn't have an internal reaction'.

"I started googling 'sun allergy' and found an article where someone had sun poisoning, I clicked on it and saw a picture of a woman whose face had swollen up.

Advert

"I put two and two together after seeing pictures of people who looked like me. It was a bit of a relief to know what it was. Now I'm just scared of the sun.

Kennedy News and Media

"I slowly deflated over those few days thanks to the steroids and I was back to normal by Thursday.

"My skin was super tight, super itchy and if you touched it, it was really scaly - it felt really horrible."

With her skin back to normal, Ruby says she now slaps on factor 50 every day to make sure she doesn’t burn again. 

Advert

Ruby said: "I've got this really good SPF 50 cream that I now put on underneath my makeup and I have the matching spray, which I carry around with me at all times.

"I would say to anyone who thinks it won't happen to them 'you'll definitely eat your words' because I never thought it would happen to me."

Featured Image Credit: Kennedy News and Media

Topics: UK News, Health

Claire Reid
Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at LADbible who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats. You can contact Claire at [email protected]

Advert

Advert

Advert

  • Dad who ignored 'pink eye' could have died after infection left him looking like 'Sloth from The Goonies'
  • Man left looking like ’Megamind' after having huge reaction so bad his girlfriend ‘couldn’t look at him’
  • Woman left unable to close eyes from 'horror surgery' after wanting face to look like 'Snapchat filter'
  • Woman explains what it's 'actually' like to have a stroke after suffering one at 32 years old

Choose your content:

6 mins ago
an hour ago
3 hours ago
  • 6 mins ago

    'Ghost children' siblings aged 6 and 9 rescued from isolated farm with no contact from outside world

    Police came to warn them about a flood and found two children who had never been registered

    News
  • an hour ago

    Chilling CCTV footage emerges as police search for victim's head after reality star girlfriend charged with murder

    Tamika Sueann Rose Chesser had been a former reality TV contestant

    News
  • 3 hours ago

    Brit teen ‘tortured into trafficking £200k-worth of cannabis’ as she shows shocking injury in court

    UK teen Bella May Culley went missing in Thailand, but was found in a Georgia jail accused of smuggling drugs

    News
  • 3 hours ago

    Professors explain worrying truth behind 'Japanese Baba Vanga's' prediction that has caused tourist cancellations

    Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki's prediction caused mass tourism chaos

    News