"The Girl who Cries Blood" - A Heart Touching Story :
Twinkle Dwivedi (born 1996) is a girl from Lucknow, India & who has
baffled top doctors because she spontaneously BLEEDS from her pores up
to 50 TIMES a day. Twinkle Dwivedi, 16, has strange disorder which means
she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.
Terrified Twinkle has even undergone transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and soles of her feet.
Dr George Buchanan, a leading haematologist who has worked in Britain,
travelled to India to look into the startling case. The teenager from
Lucknar, Uttar Pradesh, has been suffering the frightening episodes up
to 50 times a day for the last three years. She said: "I bleed from my
eyes, my hands, my head, from everywhere. From my ears, nose and eyes as
well. "It doesn't hurt when the bleeding starts. But it makes me tired
and sometimes I have headaches." Dr Buchanan, an American paediatric
blood specialist, visited Twinkle's family at the Jaslok Hospital in
Mumbai where he observed her bleeding.
He said: "I've never
seen a case of someone who bleeds spontaneously from their scalp or
their palms, or read about it in medical history.
"I was interested to see if I could help Twinkle."
The doctor was called to the family's hotel room to witness bleeding which began from her hair parting.
He was shocked to find no signs of cuts, bruising or redness.
Dr Buchanan said: "It doesn't seem physically possible for blood to seep through intact skin.
"But I saw no signs of cuts or bruising anywhere on her body."
Dr Buchanan and his team carried out a series of tests including cutting Twinkle's skin to time how quickly the bleeding stops.
Tests show she may have a mild form of a clotting disorder, which means
her platelets do not stick together properly. But this is not enough to
explain the spontaneous bleeding.
Dr Buchanan is also investigating whether Twinkle or her mum cause the bleeding themselves.
Twinkle, a Hindu, said: "I am not causing this. Why would I want to make myself bleed?
"I don't want to be like this. I want to go to school and have a normal life."
The unlucky girl has missed at least two years of education after two schools banned her from classes because of the bleeding.
The mysterious case of Twinkle's bleeding has been fully examined in a new BodyShock documentary.
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