Overview
- Kent described waking up to small itchy bites that progressed into painful, oozing boils after returning from Hawaii.
- A biopsy was interpreted as most consistent with a rare allergic reaction to an insect bite rather than a bacterial illness, according to her account.
- Testing she recounted ruled out staph, chickenpox, and mpox, and a clinician lanced the lesions for analysis while wearing protective gear she likened to a hazmat suit.
- She consulted a dermatologist and was prescribed an oral steroid, two steroid creams, and an antibiotic due to concerns about scarring.
- Kent contrasted her situation with Bethenny Frankel’s recently reported travel-related bacterial infection, noting hers was nonbacterial.