Rare Disease Causes Fingers to Temporarily Turn White or Blue
Raynaud syndrome, also known as Raynaud’s phenomenon, is a rare medical condition that limits blood supply to fingers, and sometimes to the toes, causing them to temporarily turn white or blue. Named after physician Auguste Gabriel Maurice Raynaud, who first described it in his doctoral thesis in 1862, this rare condition can be described as an overreaction to […]
Teen Allergic to Touch Uses Her Own Body as Human Etch-a-Sketch
An 18-year-old girl suffering from a skin condition called dermatographia, which causes her skin to swell up when touched, is using her own body as a canvas for playful doodles. 18-year-old Emma Aldenryd creates her very own type of body art by running a pencil over her skin, which causes the lines she traces to […]