A case of a woman shedding blood from her face or hand like a sweat is reported although there is no scarring

byDank Spangle

Despite having no trauma, a case of a woman shedding blood from her face or palm like sweat was reported.

A case of blood sweating: hematohidrosis syndrome
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/42/E1314

Sweating blood: bizarre disorder baffles doctors - Health - CBC News
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'Sweating' blood: mysterious case leaves Canadian experts searching for answers | World news | The Guardian
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A 21 - year - old woman living in Italy has been suffering from the symptoms of "sweating blood" from about three years ago. The woman does not recognize the trick that caused the symptoms, the cause is unknown, but it seems that blood sweat frequently blows during activity or during sleep. It is reported that the period of blood spouting is about 5 minutes per time, and it is reported that the amount of perspiration increases when exposed to great stress.


Roberto Maglie, a dermatologist at the University of Florence, has not disclosed the details of the patient in response to the Canadian news media CBC's interview, but women are socially isolated due to this symptom, and the disorder and panic disorder He seems to have been onset.

Because the number of blood cells and blood coagulation reactions of female patients is normal, the doctors were doubtful at first that "it is not a complaint," but in the endHyperhidrosisIt was diagnosed as. Bloody perspiration is a very rare disease, the cause is unknown at the time of article creation. It has been suggested that the possibility that the blood has lost its ability to coagulate, the bursting of small blood vessels within the organization, and the possibility that extreme emotional state leads to a physical disorder However, the certain cause is not clarified. Blood sweat also happens in places without sweat glands.

Doctor Michelle Sholzberg of Toronto, Canada does not see hemorrhagic disease as a hemorrhagic disease and thinks that "there is an anatomical defect at a level visible only by a microscope".

According to medical historian Jacalyn Duffin, the history of hyperhidrosis is complicatedly involved with religious references, so it seems difficult to separate purely medical things and religious references. In famous places Jesus Christ has experienced blood sweat, but it existed before Christ appearedAristotleIt is also said that it was blood sweat. Also, from the 16th century it is said that a medical report of blood hyperhidrosis not related to the crucifixion of Christ appears. In one report, it is said that a 12 - year - old boy who burned high fever sweated blood and that a person sentenced to death was sweating blood from extreme stress.


According to Mr. Duffin, 18 people with serum sweat have been reported since 2000, many were children and young women. Many of these patients developed hyperhidrosis due to witnessing violence at school and at home, and symptoms continued for 1 to 4 years. Mr. Duffin sees that few articles focusing on blood sweat are due to religious treatment, but the situation is gradually changing, the doctors' awareness also increases, the number of reports also increased It is said that it is.

Blood sweat is not a fatal disease, but it is horrible for the patient. Italian women reported casesPropranololAlthough it succeeded in alleviating the symptoms with medicine used for treating arrhythmia and angina pectoris, it seems that it has not reached complete recovery.