Posted by Since 2013 Marnie-Rae Harvey, an English girl, has been coughing up blood and then crying blood, with bleeding also from her ears, nails, gums and scalp. The condition is called haemolacria, which usually has local causes, but in her case doctors have not found a definite diagnosis.
Marnie-Rae Harvey is an English girl suffering from an unknown syndrome.
She not only cries blood, but suffers from blood loss from the ears, nails and other body parts.
What is the strange disease she is affected by?
Marnie-Rae Harvey
It’s 2013 when Marnie-Rae Harvey, a British girl, begins to cough up blood.
She goes to the doctor for help, and they run some tests, but they don’t seem to understand the source of her problem.
While the doctors are trying to understand why Marnie-Rae is coughing up blood, the girl begins to bleed from her eyes too.
I was bleeding from my eyes, I could not see anything
These are the words of the girl in an interview with the BBC.
The parents, very worried, turned to many specialists but nobody could figure out what is wrong with Marnie-Rae.
What’s more, the blood tears were followed by other types of bleeding from other body parts such as nails, ears, gums and scalp.
The only thing that the doctors were able to show was that the girl has very low immunity.
But what strange illness afflicts the poor Marnie-Rae?
Haemolacria
Haemolacria is a clinical condition that induces tears to be partly or wholly made of blood.
The tears can be just tinged with red or look entirely made of blood. Most often the cause is local: bacterial conjunctivitis, an injury or damage to the eye. Sometimes it is blood from a nosebleed forced up through the nasolacrimal ducts; at other times it may indicate a tumour of the lacrimal apparatus or diseases such as tuberculosis. In some women of childbearing age it can also have hormonal causes, similar to what happens with endometriosis.
But Marnie-Rae does not seem to have any of these diseases. She has been subjected to many tests and now a number of diseases has been excluded, such as cancer and circulatory disorders.
Yet she continues to weep blood about 5 times a day and suffer from nausea and terrible headaches.
Because of this problem she cannot go to school or look for a job because this condition takes away all her strength and she has difficulty in walking.
Marnie-Rae is not the only one. Similar cases have been reported in India, Brazil, Chile and the United States, and some have even suggested that Vlad III of Wallachia, the historical Dracula, suffered from it: protein analysis of his letters found traces consistent with haemolacria. In many cases, however, the diagnosis has never been officially confirmed, and Marnie-Rae’s case is still listed without a definite diagnosis.
What strange disease is afflicting Marnie-Rae? No one knows for now, but she hopes to get well soon and be able to live her life normally.
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