STUDENT'S THROAT EXPLODES FROM DRINKING TOO MUCH VODKA

She drank so much vodka that her
windpipe tore and she was vomiting and had to spend six days in
hospital.
Megan Thomason, 21, was violently ill for 24
hours after downing triple shots costing just
£2.89 each during a night on the town.
She was admitted to hospital where she was
diagnosed with surgical emphysema, which
caused her face and neck to swell so much she
could have suffocated. She went out with friends
in York on June 12 this year and headed straight
to a bar where she had three vodka and Cokes.
After visiting two more bars, she spent the night
with a friend but woke up and began being sick.
‘It was the worst experience of my whole life,’
said Miss Thomason. ‘People say they get hung
over but I nearly died. Because they were triples,
it was actually the equivalent of nine drinks and
you don’t think of that at the time.
‘I was just in shock when I realised how serious it
was.’
She failed to respond to anti-nausea medication
and it took doctors some time to realise Miss
Thomason from Barlby, North Yorkshire, lacks the
enzymes necessary to break down alcohol,
causing her face to swell.
‘Basically, it felt like bubble wrap inside my
cheeks and my mouth and chest,’ she said.
‘It was just one night out for a few drinks and it
left me in hospital for a week, I could have died,’
she said.
The Hull University business student has now
given up alcohol for good.
She was really lucky