Carrot Obsession Gone Viral: Woman's Transformation Leaves Internet Speechless

So… fancy consuming a whole lot of carrots? (AhsewkaTano/Reddit)

One user joked: “I’m glad you recovered from ate too many carrots disease.”

Another joked: “So I can get my wife to start eating carrots instead of that self tanning stuff?”

With a third saying: “Hah, that’s pretty wild. I get orange-ish palms if I eat too much, but that’s as far as it goes.”

Dermatologist Melissa Piliang, MD has previously spoken about the condition and its prevalence.

According to a Cleveland Clinic report, she confirmed: “Eating too many beta-carotene filled foods can turn your skin an orangey color.

“Carotenemia is pretty uncommon, but we probably see one or two cases a year.”

Dr Piliang has insisted that this can happen to a person in a relatively short amount of time, depending on the amount of carotene they’re consuming.

Lovely beta-carotene filled carrots(Getty Stock Image)

She continued: “You would need to be eating about 20 to 50 milligrams of beta-carotenes per day for a few weeks to raise your levels enough to see skin discoloration.

“One medium carrot has about 4 milligrams of beta-carotene in it. So if you’re eating 10 carrots a day for a few weeks you could develop it.”

As strange as it might be, carotenemai is not dangerous and treatment simply requires you to reduce the amount of amount of beta-carotene rich foods being consumed. In other words, put down the carrots and opt for something that doesn’t turn you orange.

Dr Piliang added: “Little kids may be at higher risk for developing carotenemia because of pureed baby foods like squash and carrots. But there is no risk or danger to having it.”