Porphyria is also known as the
Vampire Disease. This rare condition causes horrific changes to your body.
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It's been nicknamed the "Vampire Disease" and it'll completely change the way you look.
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What is it?
Porphyria is a group of genetic disorders responsible for affecting the way your body produces porphyrins and heme causing extreme pain throughout your body as well as deformities on your skin. The first classification is acute porphyria, which primarily affects your nervous system. The second, more prevalent type is called cutaneous porphyria, which has been nicknamed the Vampire Disease due to the way it transforms the physical appearances of your body to look like a vampire in real life.
Where is it located?
Porphyria has been detected in all races and ethnic groups throughout the world, with higher incident rates in
India and
Sweden. It affects about one in 25,
000 people in the
United States and anywhere between one in
500 to one in 50,000 people worldwide. Although it's extremely rare, it's ranked in the top 5 weirdest diseases that exists.
How will it kill you?
Acute porphyria affects your nervous system and causes episodic crises called acute attacks, whose symptoms include abdominal pain as well as vomiting and hypertension due to elevated blood pressure. These acute attacks also cause muscle weakness, quadriplegia, seizures, and coma due to motor neurological complications.
Victims suffering from the vampirism version--cutaneous porphyria--will experience symptoms similar to mythological vampires including a sensitivity to sunlight and garlic, blisters, necrosis, and shrinking gums that make their teeth look canine-like.
Death occurs during acute attacks due to cardiac arrhythmia.
How to survive:
Acute porphyria is treated through a high-carb diet through the use of intravenous sugar. Hemin injections are also administered in order to limit the body's production of porphyrins and control the victim's acute attacks.
Cutaneous porphyria patients must focus on decreasing the amount of porphyrins as well by reducing their exposure to sunlight, drawing blood, and taking medications such as hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) and chloroquine (Aralen).
Beta carotene may also be prescribed to help with the patient's photosensitivity problems.
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- published: 01 Mar 2015
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