Medicine causes woman's excessive body hair growth

An 18-year-old woman called Wang Mei in Changzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, is enduring the side-effects of a drug which caused excessive facial and body hair growth, the Yangtze Evening Post reported Wednesday.

Wang's mother told the newspaper that the young woman was hospitalized for severe aplastic anemia – a form of bone marrow failure – last June, and her condition deteriorated.

Doctors feared for her life and they prescribed Wang a drug which cured her condition.

But the medicine, which Wang took for six months, contained a high dose of male hormone, and led to an abnormal growth of facial and body hair.

Wang Mei has stopped taking the drug and is being treated in hospital.

Her family has already spent over 300,000 yuan ($45,330) for the initial treatment, and now they are also having to pay at least 200,000 yuan ($30,220) to deal with the disease.