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- Hematidrosis, or bloody sweat, is a rare condition often linked to extreme stress or religious beliefs, and a case study highlights a 14-year-old girl as a typical patient.
- The girl experienced bleeding primarily from her scalp and palms, with blood found in her sweat containing all blood components.
- A biopsy revealed blood-filled spaces that connected to hair follicles but did not show vascular elements; these spaces would disappear after bleeding, explaining the intermittent nature of the condition.
Article Abstract
Cases of hematidrosis (bloody sweat) are extremely rare. This disease has been described in various terms and has been often tied to religious belief as stigmatization. We report a typical patient with hematidrosis in a 14-year-old girl who frequently bled from her scalp and palms, and, occasionally, from trunk, soles, and legs. The bloody sweat from her scalp contained all blood elements. Immediate biopsy after there was bleeding on her scalp showed multiple blood-filled spaces that opened directly into the follicular canals or on to the skin surface. Immunoperoxidase studies failed to demonstrate vascular nature of these spaces. Our study explained how and why there was bleeding in our patient and in patients with related conditions as described in earlier literatures. We also explained why this phenomenon was intermittent because the spaces indicated above will disappear after exuding their content but then reoccurred after the blood flow was reestablished.
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