Rockwood, TN – A teen is dealing with a medical mystery. Without warning, he cries blood. Now, his family is making a desperate plea for help.
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Much of the time, Calvino Inman seems like any other 15-year-old boy. But then, without warning, he says his eyes start bleeding.
He says it happens at least three times a day, and can last from a few minutes to up to an hour.
“Sometimes, I can feel it coming up, like a tear. I feel my eyes watering,” he says. “Sometimes, it will burn as it comes out.”
“I’ve been called possessed by almost all of my friends. I guess I’m used to it now. At first, it kind of hurt my feelings,” Inman says.
“The scariest thing in my life is when he looked at me and said ‘Mom, am I going to die?’ That right there broke my heart,” says his mother, Tammy Mynatt.
She’s taken her son to several specialists, but still has no diagnosis and no treatment.
“Every doctor tells us they’ve never seen anything like this before in all their many years of being a doctor,” Mynatt says.
Now, his mother says she’s running out of hope.
“More than anything, I just truly want somebody to say they’ve seen this and they can help us. I don’t care where we have to travel. I will go wherever we need to go. I will do whatever I have to do. I just please want somebody to help my baby. That’s all,” Mynatt says.
Poor kid, hope he finds a solution and healing soon.
It is much more likely that The Amazing Randi will find the obvious answer than doctors who are too easily fooled by those trying to do so..
Maybe he is a vampire? They cry blood too.
when he cries it comes blood instead of tears to?
Posted all over the internet two-three months ago there was a kid from india who started bleeding randomly from her body. Doctors diagnosed it as as a rare clotting disorder (unfortunately largely untreatable)
May he have a Refuah Shilaimah B’Karov!
Hopefully all that’s happening is this is courtesy of a slight bleed in or near the nose. I saw a similar situation “way back” when a patient had blood staining his eyes and dripping out like tears.
The regular path is that fluid from the eyes drains out into the.. tear duct and into the (loosely speaking) sinuses and nose, and either gets blown out into a tissue or goes backward and swallowed.
And.. if you’ve got a bloody nose, it’s because there was bleeding along that channel and it went out through.. the nose (and into the throat).
If there’s a blockage along the way, that blood can.. back up and go right to the eyes.
Scary when you first see it, but easy to deal with.
i bled from the corner of one eye last year. not as much as this boy. my regular eye dr. said he never saw anything like it. the 2nd eye dr. i saw said its very common. but this sounds worse. by me it wasn’t so often. or so much blood.
Calling Dr. House!
If he is Catholic, they might think that he is spiritually special because it looks like Stigmata.
He should see an ENT. If that doesn’t work see an opthomologist. If that doesn’t work pray !!! Or maybe the other way around is better !
He should stop looking for a cure and become an actor. Hollywood loves to have villains tear blood. Remember the bad guy in James Bond’s Casino Royale?
My sister had that happen to her last year. I don’t recall what ended up happening or if she’s ever had it before. It definitely was scary.
Hyphema (Bleeding in Eye) Overview
Blunt trauma to the eye can cause bleeding in the front (or anterior chamber) of the eye between the cornea and the iris. This bleeding into the anterior chamber of the eye is called a hyphema.
The anterior chamber of the eye contains a clear liquid fluid called aqueous humor. The aqueous humor is secreted by the ciliary processes in the posterior chamber of the eye. The aqueous humor passes through the pupil into the anterior chamber. The aqueous humor provides important nutrition to the inner structures of the eye.
Hyphema Causes
Trauma to the eye may initially cause a small hyphema. More severe bleeding may follow in three to five days. This trauma is usually blunt or closed trauma, and it may be the result of an athletic injury from a flying object, a stick, a ball, or another player’s elbow. Other causes include industrial accidents, falls, and fights.
Hyphema Symptoms
A person with a hyphema may have had a recent incident of eye trauma, might feel pain in the injured eye, and may have blurred vision.
If the hyphema is large, the eye itself may look as if it is filled with blood. Smaller hyphemas are not readily visible to the naked eye. Extremely large hyphemas filling the entire anterior chamber appear dark red and have been called “eight ball” hyphemas.
Hyphema Treatment
Self-Care at Home
Hyphema should not be treated at home without seeing your ophthalmologist. Make no attempts to cover the eye, because, if done incorrectly, you may do more harm than good.
Medical Treatment
Treatment of hyphema depends on how readily you comply with instructions. Following directions for care is important. About 15%-20% of people with a hyphema have further bleeding in three to five days. This is why compliance with care is so important.
Blood usually reabsorbs, but the doctor must make sure the process is resolving as expected. If intraocular pressure increases or if bleeding reoccurs, you may be hospitalized.
You will be instructed to do the following as part of home follow-up care:
Rest in bed with the head of the bed elevated as much as you can tolerate.
Do not engage in any strenuous activity.
Do not take any medicines containing aspirin. It promotes bleeding. This also includes nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, such as naproxen (Aleve), ibuprofen (Motrin), or many other arthritis medications.
You may take a mild pain reliever, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), but do not take too much. You want to know if eye pain occurs, because it may be related to an increase in pressure in the eye. If eye pain increases, return to the doctor immediately.
Place drops in your eye three to four times a day or exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Drops of 1% atropine may be prescribed. Steroid drops may also be prescribed to fight inflammation and pain.
Cover the eye with a shield to protect it from further injury.
If you have a microhyphema or a small, layered hyphema, you might be asked to see your ophthalmologist every day for five days and then a week after that. A one-month follow-up appointment may also be required. At these visits, the ophthalmologist checks your vision, intraocular pressure, and the anterior chamber of the eye.
Children and elderly people may not be able to follow the home treatment plan. They and others who have complications may be admitted to the hospital for close observation. Treatment is similar to that suggested for home follow-up care.
Medicine may be given to prevent you from vomiting; such activity that involves straining increases pressure in the eye.
If eye pressure increases, certain medicine, such as a beta-blocker, may be delivered through eyedrops into the eye. An occasional increase in pressure can be caused by the red blood cells obstructing the meshwork of the eye. When the meshwork is obstructed, the normal flow of liquid through the eye is interrupted. This backup of fluid in the eye increases the pressure in the eye.
Prevention
Hyphema can occur with any trauma to the eye. Wear protective eyewear whenever you play a sport that recommends it. Industrial environments may also be hazardous, thereby necessitating mandatory eye protection.
Hyphema is intraocular..the bleeding in this case is extraocular.
the tear ducts connect from the nose to the eyes… like when normal people cry, tears sometimes run out their nose. maybe in his condition, its like a nose bleed, but it comes out his eyes. im a 15 y/o from right out of nashville, and Tn is like a great big basin. so allergens are collected in the bottom… which is right here in TN. the worse the allergies, the more nose bleeds or “eye bleeds” he would have. I’m no doctor (yet) but i want to be when i grow up, so i always am studying medicine.
im sorru to hear about this. i use to go to school with him and i feel sorry for him. hes not posessed hes not a vampire so everybody needs too stop saying that
i hope he can get the help that he needs. i’m in medical school right now and learning about the tear ducks in the eyes and there hasn’t been that many cases of this in the u.s hopefully he can live a normal life soon..