Woman discovers she is allergic to the SUN after her face blows up

When you're out having fun in the summer it can be easy to forget to put on suncream. But one woman learnt the hard way just how important it is to take adequate protection when the temperatures start to rise.

Football coach Laura Day, 24, suffered from 'sun poisoning' - an extreme form of sunburn - after watching a match 'in the sun all day' without adequate protection. At first, she just thought she'd caught the sun, but it was much worse, the Mirror reports.

"I went to watch some of the girls I coach in their cup final and we went to a beer garden afterward to celebrate the girls getting to the final and doing really well. So I was basically in the sun all day," Laura, from Manchester, said.

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"I then went home and just thought I'd caught the sun as I normally burn quite easily. Later on the Saturday night I was with my friends and my face was really warm, and felt like it was burning.

"I woke up on the Sunday and was a little burnt, I then went to watch the girls I coach play for their Sunday league team in the morning, and then went to watch another game in the afternoon.

"I got home and again I thought I'd caught the sun but I didn't really think much of it other than having sunburn which is normal for me, but as the night progressed, my forehead started to swell really bad.

"My friends were joking that I looked like the character Megamind but none of us expected what was to happen the following day."

When Laura woke up on Monday morning, she was horrified that her face had drastically swollen even further, and her left eyebrow and eyelid has swollen - so she finally made the decision to go to the hospital, where her