The teenager who cries and sweats BLOOD

A teenager suffers from a rare condition that causes her to cry and sweat blood.

Delfina Cedeno, 19, began suffering from the bizarre disorder - which also causes blood to seep from her fingernails and belly button - four years ago.

As her condition deteriorated, she started crying the red fluid, having nosebleeds and suffering hair loss.

                                 

           At her worst, she has bled for up to 15 days and was once left in such a critical condition that she needed a blood transfusion.

But despite hundreds of tests, doctors in her hometown of Veron, in the Dominican Republic, were left baffle

Miss Cedeno said: 'When this started happening to me I didn't know what to think - I was terrified and in complete shock.

'At first no one could help me and they looked at me like a crazy person when I told them what was going on.

'It was only when I started bleeding in front of a doctor one day that they began to take me seriously.'

                                                                                                                                                            She says she became so ashamed of her condition that she was terrified of leaving the home she shares with her mother Mariana, 36.

She dropped out of school and many of her friends deserted her out of embarrassment or fear that she was contagious.

She said: 'People were terrified of me. They thought if they touched me I would stain them with blood.

'Kids laughed and shouted at me. For a long time I just stayed in my bedroom.'

Miss Cedeno became so depressed by the ordeal that she even tried to take her own life by overdosing on sedatives                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     posted by Emanto Ngaloru Nov 6, 2013.