A rare rare illness caused this girl to shed blood instead of sweat

The Western proverb has the phrase "We sweated blood", to refer to the extreme effort to do something, similar to the sentence "sweating, tears of tears." "of Vietnamese Na people .

But believe it, it turns out that the phenomenon of "sweating blood" in the other idiom is a real phenomenon. As is the case with the 21-year-old girl in Italy, this is a typical example.

According to the doctor, she went to the hospital in the state of blood flowing all over her face and hands. But strangely, there is no wound in the whole body, nor is it "until the month". Tests confirmed that the red liquid on her body was blood.

The girl suffers from blood sweat.

So what is the cause? It is a very strange disease, called hematohidrosis - also known as blood sweat - a rare and mysterious disease with current science.

The origin of this syndrome has been around for thousands of years, in documents compiled by Aristotle philosopher. Leonardo da Vinci also recorded the case of a soldier sweating blood before the battle. By 1996, two doctors decided to place this as a disease, based on 76 cases recorded from the 17th century to the 1980s.

However, this syndrome has not been widely recognized by the entire medical community. Elsevier dermatology textbook in 2012 clearly states that Hematohidrosis has not been confirmed by science, although before and after, the world continues to record similar cases.

Some researchers reported a case of 72-year-old male patient in 2009, a 13-year-old boy in 2010, and two other cases in 2013. From 2004 to 2017, there were about 28 cases. suffer from this disease in the world (excerpted from Jacalyn Duffin's scientific report from Queen's University).

"In general, cases of hematohidrosis appear with stable frequency and tend to increase," Duffin said. But the truth is that no one knows anything about this disease yet.

Some experts believe that the cause may be related to depression. This reason is not recognized, as there have not been any specific studies with appropriate stature. However, there is much evidence to support this hypothesis.

A case of hematohidrosis.

Return to the case of 21-year-old patient. She said blood could be spilled at any time of the day, even when sleeping. Usually, each bleeding lasts from 1 to 5 minutes, and the disease gets worse when she feels emotionally depressed.

Her life was disturbed. She almost lives apart from society, because it is rare for anyone to endure this situation. Symptoms are almost similar to depression and panic syndrome.

Because no specific cause has been found, the doctors currently only treat her with depression medicine. Although the condition is better, never before has the disease completely disappeared.