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Mum has rare disease causing her face to swell “like a puffer fish”

Ashley Hoskins, 36, first began to notice her lip swelling up when she was 19, but doctors chalked it up to allergies or an infection. But over the following years she would have repeated flare ups on her face, as well as other parts of her body such as her hands and feet. Her facial swelling would leave her looking “like a puffer fish” and she would last days at a time, often landing the mother-of-four in hospital. It wasn’t until 2019 that she was finally diagnosed with a swelling-related condition called type III hereditary angioedema.