I went blind from bleaching my skin - Woman reveals to Berla Mundi
I went blind from bleaching my skin - Woman reveals to Berla Mundi A woman in her 60s has narrated to Gh One Tv’s Berla Mundi on The Late Afternoon Show how she went blind from bleaching her skin. The woman revealed she was buying every bleaching cream on the market in her early 20s in order to look fairer and more beautiful. Unfortunately for her, the hydroquinone in the cream came into contact with her eyes, affecting her so badly that she went blind. It took a surgery at the Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital at a cost of GHC8,000 to get her sight back. After her surgery, she was advised by the doctor to stay away from the products in order to prevent another episode as that was going to render her blind for life. Unfortunately for her, blindness was not the only effect skin bleaching had on her as she was left with a brutally burnt and scaly skin from the use of different products that came in from Abidjan and hence is advising all young women to desist from bleaching their skin a...