Mother and son of flight set due to skin condition: I felt humiliated

Jordan Flake wanted El Paso to the city of Dallas to travel with the airline American Airlines, but had to just for the take off together with her little son to leave the plane. The reason for this? One of the stewards feared that the chronic skin disease to which the mother and her eyeball suffering was contagious. “I explained that there is no contamination risk was, but he didn't believe me,” said Flake.

“My husband is a soldier in the Us army and is often on mission abroad. Last week, he was for a training in El Paso. I had him for two months not seen. Together with our son I brought him a visit. Thursday it was unfortunately time to return. When we boarded the plane boarded, spoke to one of the stewards to me. He asked me what the ‘strange stains’ on our faces were. I told him that my son and I ichthyosis”, the woman says to the American newspaper ‘The Washington Post’.

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Ichthyosis is a non-contagious chronic skin abnormality in which the upper part of the skin, the stratum corneum, is thicker than otherwise. The skin becomes very dry and scaly. To date, there is still no curative solution for this genetic skin disease found. The treatment consists of supportive medication and creams for the itching to fight.

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