A 17-year-old girl suffers from a mysterious illness that causes her to bleed from her eyes, ears and nose several times a day. British doctors consider her condition unique and unique in the country.
It all started in 2013 when Marnie Harvey from Stoke-on-Trent (UK) woke up in the morning to find blood splattered on her pillow. The girl's mother immediately took her to the doctors, but they could not say anything. The girl was only prescribed a diet without foods with sugar and milk protein.
But over the next two years, Marnie's condition began to worsen, she developed a severe headache that caused her to skip school, and last summer, blood began to ooze from her eyes. According to Marnie, when she had a migraine attack, she could only lie in a dark room and not move for several weeks.
Now, up to five times a day, blood oozes from her eyes, ears, nose and even from under her nails. Over the past few weeks, blood has even flowed from the tongue and scalp. The girl experiences strong painful sensations at the same time.
Because of her condition, Marnie Harvey is now practically housebound and cannot go anywhere for a long time, and doctors, unable to solve the mystery of her illness, gave her the nickname "The Mystery Girl".
The doctors were convinced that the matter was an allergy to certain foods. At first they advised to exclude sugar and milk from the diet, then chocolate, wheat, gluten, but everything was useless.
“It’s dark, thick blood and it doesn’t flow, but it seems to ooze,” Marnie describes her terrible condition.
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Doctors examined her, suspecting that the young British woman had a brain tumor, but nothing was confirmed.
- Before, I could go out with friends every day, but now I am too scared to leave the house once again. In summer you could at least hide my eyes behind sunglasses, but now I can't even do that. I don't know at what point I will start bleeding again and I don't want to scare people.
Once Marnie Harvey dreamed of going to study as a nurse, finding a young man and going on vacation, but now all this has become unattainable and all her worries now are trips to one specialist, then to another in the hope that her illness will be identified and cured …
Every day she sees purple and cyanotic bruises on her body, which are swollen and very painful when pressed.
- I even did a scan of the ovaries and uterus, the gynecologist also examined everything, but they did not find anything strange.
The girl's mother is very upset about her daughter's condition.
- All her tests come back without finding anomalies, her iron levels are normal, she has no tumors, blood diseases, clotting disorders, etc. An ultrasound scan confirmed that her kidneys, liver, uterus and ovaries were normal and functioning normally, as were her throat, ears, eyes and nose. She also had an MRI scan, computed tomography, several blood tests, and all that doctors could find in her was lowered immunity.
“The doctors themselves are confused,” says Marnie. “They bring students to me to see me as a curiosity. One student said that I have stigmata. But I am not a religious person and our family is not religious.
The girl's family conducted their own research and were able to find two more similar cases in the world. 6 years ago in Tennessee there lived a certain 15-year-old Calvino Inman, who had bloody tears 3 times a day. The specialist diagnosed him with hemolacria - the release of blood along with tears. Hemolacria can be caused by infections, trauma, and tumors. But that doesn't sound like Marnie's case.
Another similar case was recorded in India in 2008, where a 13-year-old girl Twinkle Dwivedi cried tears of blood and blood flowed profusely from any even small cuts. The doctors decided that she had poor blood clotting and this case again did not fit Marnie, they did not find anything similar in her.
The girl's family now desperately needs any professional help and support. According to Marnie, sometimes her friends come to see her, but she has not seen many of her acquaintances for several months.
“They think that I have Ebola or blood cancer, we can now communicate only through Facebook,” the girl says sadly.