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Laura Ponce: Meet The Woman Who Cries Solid Crystals [PHOTOS]
- A Teacher has revealed she has a bizarre medical condition that makes her cry “crystal” tears.
Laura Ponce, 35, says she suffers when the strange white crystals appear under her eyelids, sometimes for weeks at a time.
The primary school teacher from Brazil said: “It starts to swell then I have to open my eye to take out the membrane. When it dries it hardens, it gets really hard. It hurts a lot.”
As she removes each crystal, another starts to form. It is initially soft but as it reaches the air close to the surface of her eye, the texture changes and it becomes solid.
The strange condition first appeared when she was just 15.
Her horrified mum Marissa said: “We checked inside and there was a thick membrane. We took it out and I was scared. We ran to the ER and the doctor on duty also got scared.
“The doctor was mystified.”
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The pain has not stopped for Laura — who sometimes has to remove the white membranes 30 times a day.
She often finds herself trapped at home and having to miss work.
She added: “I’m a nursery school teacher, I get angry not being able to work. Two years ago it was infected for six months and I was taking 30 membranes out of my eye each day.”
But Dr. Raul Goncalves, a Brazilian ophthalmologist, claims he can cure her condition but says they are yet to find a case such as Miss Ponce’s in medical history.
After running a series of tests, he now believes the white crystals are due to her eyes producing excessive amounts of keratin, EKO HOT BLOG gathered.
Dr. Goncalves said: “I have been an ophthalmologist for 25 years and I have never seen anything like it.
“For these plaques to form so fast there could only be one explanation, it must be chemical.
“The cornea jumps into action, and in Miss Ponce’s case the cornea’s surface can secrete keratin. This keratin together with other components causes the tears to crystallize”.
Dr. Goncalves has prescribed silver nitrate eye drops to manage Miss Ponce’s condition and now the nursery teacher has much fewer eye infections and can go back to work.
She said: “My expectations are for my eyes to be cured and for everything to be fine.”
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