BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
Indian girl dubbed Jesus after crying and sweating blood from all over her body
THIS disturbing footage shows a young girl sweating, crying and leaking blood from all over her body.
Chwngsasa Debbarma, from Tripura in North-East India, leaves onlookers horrified as she oozes red fluid from her ears and nose and sweats blood from her arms and legs.
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And some people are now likening the eight-year-old to Jesus - as he also sweated blood in "Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane" in the bible.
Chwngsasa is thought to be suffering from a rare condition known as hematohidrosis - which affects just one in ten million people.
The young girl first started showing symptoms of the mysterious disease in April this year.
She was rushed to hospital where doctors were left baffled by her gruesome episodes - which can last for ten minutes, five times a day.
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After initial examinations, doctors suspected the condition to be hematidrosis – a rare disease which causes the patient to ooze blood from their skin - but experts declared it "too soon" for an official diagnosis.
Chwngsasa was subsequently referred to a specialist hospital in Agartala.
The doctors performed some initial medical check-up and sent her back home with basic medications but the condition only subsided for a matter of days.
Not long after, the patient started bleeding again this time from her nostrils, lips, tongue, forehead, head, temple, hands, legs, eyes, toes, ears and tips of fingers and palm.
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The bleeding leaves her in a state of uneasiness and with chest pain.
Chwngsasa has now been sent to yet another specialist hospital, this time the Christian Medical College in Vellore.
Doctors have kept her under observation and the treatment which she is on has kept the condition under control for a while.
Despite this, medical professionals are still working to pinpoint her condition and its causes.
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What is hematidrosis?
Hematidrosis, or hematohidrosis, is a very rare medical condition that causes you to ooze or sweat blood from your skin when you're not cut or injured.
It usually happens on or around the face, but the skin might be lining the inside of your body, too, like in your nose, mouth, or stomach.
The skin around the bloody area may swell temporarily.
Doctors don't know exactly what triggers hematidrosis, in part because it's so rare.
They think it could be related to your body's "fight or flight" response.
Tiny blood vessels in the skin break open.
The blood inside them may get squeezed out through sweat glands, or there might be unusual little pockets within the structure of your skin.
These could collect the blood and let it leak into follicles (where the hair grows) or on to the skin's surface.
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Many people have since claimed the illness sheds a light on why Jesus sweated blood in the bible.
According to scripture, he sweated blood after accepting that he would be betrayed, having pleaded with god, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak”.
Other symptoms include bloody tears – like James Bond’s nemesis in Casino Royale, Le Chiffre.
It comes after a woman in India was labelled a "witch" after being diagnosed with hematidrosis.
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More on rare skin conditions
Teenager Akhilesh Raghuvanshi also started weeping red tears five years ago.
The 14-year-old's condition was at first restricted to the Indian youngster's eyes.
But it soon spread to his ears, mouth, hairline and leg - and can happen as many as ten times a day.
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21-year-old Indian woman Geeta's rare condition which caused her to 'sweat' blood from her eyes led to her husband fearing she was a witch
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