{"id":4697,"date":"2017-12-17T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2017-12-17T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T09:10:07","slug":"woman-sweats-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Woman sweats blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman, 21, &#8216;sweats&#8217; <strong>BLOOD<\/strong> from her face and the palms of her hands when she feels stressed or exercises and even when she sleeps in a bizarre case that has baffled doctors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The patient was hospitalised in Florence, France after suffering the bizarre symptoms\u00a0for three years. The unnamed woman&#8217;s bleeding becomes most intense when she is under stress<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doctors determined\u00a0she was not faking it and diagnosed her with hematohidrosis. Canadian hematologist first suspected the Italian medics had been duped.<\/p>\n<p>But the medical literature confirms the condition, said to affect one in 10 million. She was treated her with propranolol ? a beta-blocker medication which substantially reduced her symptoms but has not completely stopped them.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about its cause, but it&#8217;s thought to be a result of extreme stress or fear. Those who have read the Bible will remember <strong>The Agony in the Garden<\/strong>, during which <strong>Jesus Christ<\/strong> sweated blood\u00a0with the knowledge that He would soon be crucified.<\/p>\n<p>Medical literature makes reference to Leonardo Da Vinci describing a soldier who sweated blood before battle. <strong>(First published by <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Claudia+Tanner+For+Mailonline\"><strong>Claudia Tanner for Mailonline<\/strong><\/a><strong> on 23 October 2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman, 21, &#8216;sweats&#8217; BLOOD from her face and the palms of her hands when she feels stressed or exercises and even when she sleeps in a bizarre case that has baffled doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}