Naomi Lewis, 42, received medical attention after an accident with a poisonous tree
One Australian woman she was involved in an accident with one of the most poisonous plants in the world, which left her in “unbearable pain” for over 9 months.
Naomi Lewis, 42, was on a mountain bike trail in Queensland, Australia, when she fell into a ravine and landed in a thorn tree called the Gympie-Gympie (Moroid dendrocnids), popularly known as the “suicide plant”.
Native to Australia, the toxins present in the plant cause pain. The woman’s family bought depilatory strips to try to remove the micro thorns of the plant that were on her skin.
“The pain was unbearable. The body reaches a pain threshold and then I started throwing up,” he said in an interview with ABC, who likened the sensation to the pain of childbirth. “I’ve had four kids, three by C-section and one by birth. I’m leaving, none of them come close.”
According to the woman, the sensation of the sting was as if her skin had caught fire. “It was horrible, absolutely horrible. It was 100% the worst pain in the world,” she concluded, that she had to be transferred to Cairns Private Hospital, where she was treated with painkillers.
Source: Terra
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