Woman Suffers Eye Bleeding During Menstrual Cycle
Doctors recently reported the case of a 25 year old woman suffering from an incredibly rare medical condition that caused her to bleed from her eyes during her monthly period. Haemolacria, the condition that causes people to cry blood, is extremely rare, but Indian doctors documented the case of a woman with a similar, but even rarer condition called “ocular vicarious menstruation.” The 25 year old woman, visited the emergency room at a hospital in Chandigarh, India complaining about crying blood. All her tests came back normal, and it was only after the woman revealed that the same thing had occurred around the same time the month before that doctors made the connection to menstruation. The woman said that the blood tears were not causing her any pain or discomfort, and the extensive ophthalmological and radiological tests showed nothing out of the ordinary. She didn’t have a history of ocular bleeding or any sort of ophthalmological problems, and she wasn’t bleeding from other locations.
After being diagnosed, the woman was treated with oral contraceptives containing a combination of estrogen and progesterone, and at a three month follow up she reported that the eye bleeding had not occurred anymore.
