Woman hospitalised after 'baboon bum' lip fillers 'got bigger and bigger'

A mum claims her lips were left looking like a baboon's 'bum' after suffering a severe allergic reaction to fillers. Lauren Evens had her filler topped up last week on April 20, it was only one hour later when her lips began to swell so 'huge' that she went to the A&E at the Countess of Chester that evening.

The 29-year-old was given antihistamines but the swelling became so severe that she was unable to talk and her "airways started to close", so she was rushed into resuscitation and given adrenaline. Now, Lauren is hoping to raise awareness after the horrific experience that such allergies can develop at any time.

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Footage captured by the mum-of-two shows her lips became so red and swollen that she compared them to the primate's infamous red backside. The video has now amassed more than 23,000 likes, comments and views on TikTok. Lauren, of Chester, Cheshire, said: "My lips looked like a baboon's bum. They went around six times bigger than their normal size. It was very painful.

"I went into anaphylactic shock. My neck started to swell which meant my airways started to close. They basically rushed me into resus and injected me with adrenaline and that worked. "My lips were really sore and I felt a bit sick. At first, I was fine in A&E. I couldn't close my mouth and was struggling to talk quite a bit but then the nurses rushed me through to resus and I couldn't really talk at all." The beauty lover said that she used to have her lips refilled around every six months - this time she topped them up with just under one ml. Lauren said: "I had the lip cream on and she [beautician] did them and they were fine but about an hour