Victoria Rubadiri’s condition manifested itself as she was reporting in Kibera slums, making it difficult for her to do her job.
The Citizen TV news anchor and reporter has a skin condition that sometimes causes a challenge to her especially when she is covering news in the field, and not when she is anchoring in the studios.
The journalist usually gets panda or raccoon’s eyes whenever she is always in the field doing her work and the sun is too hot.
Victoria Rubadiri opened up about this in latest posts on her instagram stories, where she posted a video showing how she had a challenge while in Kibera covering some undisclosed story.
It so happened that the sun was too hot to the point that she and her photographer Leah Wambua had to wait for it to become mild, so that they could continue shooting.
“So when shooting outside, this is one of the things that umh, you want to avoid. Do you see these dark spots, panda eyes….
“When you’re shooting midday this is what you get, the circles around the eyes known as panda eyes. So we’re waiting for the sun, to pass a bit. Yep shooting out in the field this is what you have to deal with,” Victoria Rubadiri said.
Raccoon eyes or panda eyes is a condition that is known by its medical term as periorbital purpura.
Periorbital purpura is the bruising of the skin around the eyes.
Some of the possible causes of raccoon’s eyes are traumatic (basal skull fracture and rhinoplasty); neuroblastoma; lymphoma; kaposi’s sarcoma and clonal plasma cell proliferative disorders (AL amyloidosis, light-chain deposition disease (LCDD) and multiple myeloma).
