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Tell me this doesn't sound like it's coming straight out of a vampire film:

Teen who cries blood gets help from experts

I thought it was an interesting thing to bring up here, we see it nearly weekly on True Blood as the way a vampire cries. Do I see a connection? No, I don't. But I do find it quite intriguing that blood seems to have found its way to this exit.

What do you all think about it? Does anyone have anything to share about this other than finding it 'cool' or 'weird'?

I saw the video on yahoo, and was like: huh????
Then after the doctor explained the lacymogene gland functionality and all, I was impress by the case.

I admit, it must be horrible to live with this kind of thing happening, but on the other hand it is a medical situation really interesting of what the human body can do and the numerous myths this kind of thing would have created in the past, when women who healed from a fever were burned as witch....

Actually, when I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of religious statues and icons 'crying blood'. Vampires didn't even come to mind...but then again, I don't get 'True Blood' on my cable - yet!

Now about those religions images that cry blood; I'd think that it could possibly come about by all of the religious fervor and emotions around? Kind of like stigmata? I'm guessing here...

People may take it 'there', too. I actually didn't think about statues of the Virgin Mary crying blood and such- I have indeed heard of it though.

I think it was neat to read of things I only knew and heard of a human crying blood, I knew that was how Vampires cry and images shedding tears of blood..This was interesting to me..Will keep a watch on this

I always thought that it was greek statues that cried blood, and that mary just cried.

I saw an episode on the history channel about ancient inventions that covered sacred hoaxes to keep people in the temples. Thunder machines, crying statues... etc.

Not to get too off topic, but again, I think it's anthropomorphic to visualize a vampire crying at all, but I speculate that if they did, I'm sure they would cry blood. (PS. I like Watership Down.)

Only the dead cry blood, this would limit the field to corpses alone.

The only interpretation that I have is what ~Isis~ had already stated which includes the stigmata of the eyes.

When my mate was killed the blood he shed I later bled my eyes turned away from the light of day never again to see the sun my new life had begun.

Uh.. What? Was that some sort of unfinished poem? It made no sense at all.

KGlitterous, here's a few links to a alleged Virgin Mary statues crying blood:

Virgin Mary Crying Blood?

Virgin Mary statue "crying" tears of blood

Unexplained Phenomena of Weeping Virgin Mary - Complete History

What interesting articles. It does make one think.
There are so many questions of this, yet so few answers.

I have looked up Haemolacria and everything I see says the same thing about it being a very rare medical condition but usually is brought about by head trauma which according to the family the boy has not suffered from. I also saw an article that mentioned tumors can be the cause..but this boy has had tests done which does not seem to show any possible causes.

When I first heard about this I did think of stigmata. I don't know if that is a common occurance with those that have experienced it and will need to research that avenue more.

My friend came to the bus stop a few years ago, and it looked like he was wearing eyeliner.
We asked about it and he said that a little blood had been "leaking" out of his eyes.
He went to the doctor, and he was fine after that...

It usually happens to me when I'm really angry. I have been to many doctors and they haven't found the answer to it, they just send me to different places to get checked out, etc.

If you can have blood in your urine, I don't see why you can't have blood in your tears; it's all part of your excretory system.

That said, the thick streams portrayed on Trueblood and even in the link to the picture seem extreme to me.

No one has mentioned a religious connection for the boy. Religious hysteria can wreak havoc on human anatomy.

the only cases I am aware of and had the privilege to read about were the only true stigmatic. Those documented by the Vatican investigators that's have had the affliction and on holy objects through out history.

Check out the new James Bond movie "Casino Royale."
One of the main bad guys cries blood. We're told why and, "It's nothing sinister."

well there is also a highly dangerous virus that due to its functionality can cause it to look as though your bleeding from the eyes, if you do not have much info on the ebola virus id look into it, its one of the most fascinating viruses out there in my opinion.And it has some rather devestating effects

this is very interesting I had heard of this case but had never seen anything on it till now thanks

At a glance I would have to say it sounds like some type of disorder or rupture in the tear ducts, but still very interesting.

I agree it has to be a medical condition of some kind..

stigmata? or artistic with the lippy :)

Its the first time i see someone cry blood. There must be something going on in his body

Maybe an eye infection.....

I have pinkish tears.... It's irritated eyes....

I think that kid is messing with his Mom....

In the shower....crying... he's 15.... He should not be crying in the shower. What the hell is going on in that house?

It was to my understanding that it isn't him actually crying but that the blood just comes without warning..they term it as crying blood but it does not mean that he is actually crying.

~DJJarak~, I hope that comment was not ment as a shovanistic point of view refering to "Aunt Flow." If so, then I really have no respect for your thoughts.

There is a clinical condition that I saw on a television show once, I cannot remember the name of either. But the patient seemed to bleed from most of his orifices.

But the simple crying of blood, this could be a disease in its own that has yet to be realized. As far as ~Vampchica's~ comment about her friends dried blood eyes, whatever... Doc or no, whatever. Serious fantasy worlds. He might have had a nose bleed and sneezed or something, when one holds their breath during a nose bleed, they can make it come out of their eyes as well.

I heard the story about young girl crying blood. I haven't seen anything on yet but to mention my first thought was stigmata.

My uncle as a baby cried tears of blood, but this was due to an unfortunate incident where my grandmother was severely beaten by my grandfather while she was pregnant.

His tear ducts didn't develop properly. But the doctors did something (not sure what), he was then able to cry normally after wards.

I find this intiguing. At first I did think of true blood. I wounder is something is really wrong or what.

Well he's here in TN, it would be interesting if I could meet him with his family.

Medically speaking, other than what's been stated I have no clue as to the cause. I wonder if there's any pain associated with it. Now of course you can have random genetic mutations which thin capillary walls but then you'd expect him to bleed from other areas not just the eyes.

I actually saw this a few days ago during a Nat. Geo preview, doing a show about him. The first thing I thought of was stigmata, of course he doesn't currently fit the case. With stigmata however, you usually bleed from one area and then another and so forth so this could just be the start of something.

I do hope there's nothing seriously wrong and that the cause is found and understood, be it medical or other.

I'm surprised doctors haven't easily explained this away.
The girl that cried blood, is most likely one of those people who have fragile capillaries at the subcutaneous level and with enough force implied can cry serosanguise (Blood & Body fluid) fluid.
Even my own son brings purpura to his face and blood to his eyes when he is sick and forcefully vomits.
Same occurs when sucking on the skin strong enough, "Hickey" effect.

Just to let you know, this coming week on Nat Geo Channel they're doing a special on a girl that cries blood.

*In a scientific type of voice* How very interesting...

well im no doctor but i can tell you that it is possible
i was abused as a child and my father hit me in the eyes thus rupturing and damaging my tear glands i wasnt able to cry when i did it had a reddish tint to it it is possible to this day it happens but very seldom
that it happens to me it is medically possible due to the fact that the three passage ways are inter conected

National Geographic will be premiering a show this Sunday at 9 pm about a girl who cries blood. I think if you're interested in this, you should watch it.

ISMAEL- While your past was awful there is a difference between broken vessels, glands etc and lacking any visible signs of trauma/damage.

For minors and women one of the first things asked in situations like this is "have you been abused?" I know this for a fact both because of my medical experience and first hand experience. I had taken a friend of mine to the ER (with a near ruptured gallbladder) and the nurse asked me to leave for a moment and then asked my friend if I had been beating her.

With proper inspection it's rather easy to tell if something is ruptured, especially when viewed during a bleeding episode or soon after.

I was reading about this earlier, very interesting. The girl from what i read spontaneously bleeds from her eyes, head, hands and other body parts. Very very interesting.

He is a BOY not a girl everyone :)

I thought the same thing when I saw the title.

i think some of us are talking a bout the girl who is on national geo channel last night it very intresting

I saw on Entertainment Tonight , about a girl who cried blood, and the doctor called her a fake to her face. Saying either it's make-up or her parents have made her think all of her life something was wrong with her, to make her cry blood, that she was making her body believe the lies that her parents were telling her. The girl got mad, and stormed out of the room.

The story makes me think of stigmata.