Doctors told her it was just allergies, but a Nebraska woman’s runny nose was actually fluid leaking from her brain!????The nightmare for 52-year-old Kendra Jackson of Omaha first started 2 1/2 years after being involved in a rear-end car crash.

She tells CNN doctors prescribed her medication for allergies, but nothing worked.

In fact it was getting worse and she was experiencing migraines.

That’s when doctors at Nebraska Medicine discovered cerebrospinal fluid - the liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord - was leaking from a hole in her skull and out through her nose, losing as much as half a liter per day.????Rhinologist Dr.

Christine Barnes and neurosurgeon Dr.

Dan Surdell operated on Jackson, fixing the potentially dangerous problem using tissue from her nose and abdomen.????As for how something so terrifying could have happened.

Doctors believe that car crash caused the hole in the thin bone separating the cranial and nasal cavity.??Following the procedure, Jackson still has the headaches but her nose has finally stopped running.