Vitals Spotlight – We Give the Doctor an Exam

Calvino's tears (nydailynews.com)

World is mesmerized by the fifteen-year-old teenage boy, Calvino Inman, who cries tears of blood.

Doctors can’t identify the medical reasoning behind his unique condition.  The Tennessee boy suffers harassment in school, where kids have labeled him as “possessed.”

Calvino Inman says of tears that bleed for hours:

“I feel it coming up, like a tear, sometimes it will burn.”

Doctors are puzzled, as there’s no clear explanation that they can provide to the family, even after undergoing numerous tests: CAT, MRI and Ultrasound.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton

Dr. Jennifer Ashton has voiced her bewilderment as well on “The Early Show,” where she is their medical correspondent.

“Usually,” she said, “it’s would be more plausible occurring with just one eye.”

So far doctors have resorted to process of elimination, and are hypothesizing that it could possibly be “haemolacria,” which  stands for “bloody tears” only affects one in a million people.

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