Hi everyone, my name is Niah Selway and I am a 23 year old woman from the UK. I suffer with a rare skin condition called Aquagenic Pruritus, which means I have allergic reactions when water comes into contact with my skin.

My skin itches for hours after I come into contact with any form of water including rain, sweat, tears, urine etc. I wasn’t born with this condition, but it became worse through my teenage years, as I went through puberty. I started to have allergic reactions to my showers, which became more and more frequent as time passed. My doctors put it down to a change in my hormones, but after many attempted treatments to lessen my symptoms, they soon decided that my skin condition was likely incurable, as I had responded to nothing they had tried and they couldn’t find a specific cause for why this started happening to me.