UK – A 17-year-old girl is suffering from a mystery condition which causes thick, stinging blood to seep from her eyes, nose, ears and fingernails up to five times a day. Marnie Harvey’s condition has baffled doctors for three years – and has left her virtually housebound. Now, desperate for a diagnosis, she is sharing her story in the hope of getting her life back.

Her ordeal began in 2013 when she became uncharacteristically unwell. She said: ‘I never used to get ill and have always been a healthy girl.’ ‘Then in February 2013 I was at home when I started coughing up blood.’ Her doctor sent her for a chest scan, which came back clear, but the worrying symptom continued for two years. She frequently attended hospital and had further blood scans, which again, came back showing nothing amiss. Then, she developed a pain in her side but tests couldn’t reveal why. She also began suffering migraines and sickness so bad she missed weeks of school.

(Daily Mail)…[+]