Porphyria – a disease of vampires
February 10th, 2009 | 10 Comments 
Porphyria is not one disease, but a group of at least eight different diseases that are significantly different. The common feature for all porphyria is accumulation of porphyria. We can find porphyria in our body, but it is not good when porphyria start to accumulation in body. Treatment and symptoms of different types of Porphyria are different. Symptoms are usually a result of disease activity on the nervous system and skin.
Name of porphyrins come from the Greek word “porphyrus” which means purple (vivid red-violet colour).
Because of how people who suffer of Porphyria looks, many people started to believe that they are vampires.
Are patients with Porphyria vampires?
Biochemist David Dolphin in 1985. proposed theory by which the vampires will be persons who was suffering of Porphyria. Here are his a arguments:
1. Persons who suffering of Porphyria are very sensitive to light. Even moderate exposure to light can sometimes cause big changes. The skin on face can be covered by scars. Nose and fingers may fall off. Oral and dental meat can be tense so teeth can be very visible.
2. They must avoid the sun, and come out only at night, just as Dracula.
3. Porphyria can be treated in some way with blood, so people can practice self-healing (drinking blood of other people)
4. Porphyria come from our grandfather of grandmother, but it does not have to be expressed until stressful situations. Also, if person who suffering of Porphyria bite sister or brother the simptoms can be viewed on biten person.
5. Garlic contain chemicals that cause deterioration of Porphyria, so sick person avoid it.
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February 21st, 2009 at 9:00 pm
That makes a lot more sense the the other explanations for vampires out there.
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 am
there are no such thing as vampires, no matter how much people want there to be.
sorry
June 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
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March 22nd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Actually, illyria, the point of the post is that ‘Vampires’ do not exist. However, porphyria may explain where the idea of vampires came from. It is possible that Bram Stoker based his idea for ‘Dracula’ on people exhibiting symptoms of Porphyria. This is not to say that vampires (who turn into bats and have no reflection and can hypnotize their victims) exist, but that people with porphyria could be the root of the vampire myth. Stories of fact are often exaggerated and distorted (explaining the origin of the supernatural aspect of these semi-fictional beings). Also, porphyria can actually cause people to seem as though they are decaying and can cause paleness. In the 1800′s doctors were the only people who had any sort of medical know-how (not like today, thanks to the internet) so to a regular person back then, a person with these symptoms could look like the walking dead (or ‘undead’). And for the last time, no one is saying that vampires are real.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:25 pm
cute. but i gotta tell ya, if i bit my brother, he wouldn’t be any more likely to have the same mutant DNA i have, porphyrics cant transmit to anyone, doesn’t matter if they’re related. likewise, drinking blood doesn’t work, because that delivers blood to the stomach which breaks it down. to use blood to moderate the disease it has to be delivered in the veins, not digestive track. and it isn’t always garlic, i happen to love garlic and eat it regularly, but i cant eat onions without throwing up or getting sick in some way. most porphyrics have some type of super restrictive diet.
but most of them never know, and just suffer abdominal pain whose source they never know, or have acute mental shifts occasionally, halucinate, drop in and out of trance states, and never realize that sun exposure has anything to do with it.
nah, porphyria is something older and weirder than vampirism.
May 4th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
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March 17th, 2013 at 8:16 pm
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