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After Years Of Runny Nose, Woman Finds It's Not Allergies — It's Brain Fluid

Kendra Jackson was constantly sniffling and sneezing. After years of seeking medical help, she found out from doctors that cerebrospinal fluid was seeping out of her skull, down her throat.

Kendra Jackson was one of those people who always had a tissue pressed up against her face.

"Everywhere I went I always had a box of Puffs, always stuffed in my pocket," Jackson KETV in Omaha, Neb.

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