[QUOTE="Saud_0"][QUOTE="-The-Freeman-"][QUOTE="Knisathianterly"]Actually there's also a disease that could only be kept under control at the time by drinking human blood. And traditionally vampires did not burn in the sun.I highly doubt the existance of such a disease..some kind of proof would be enlightening http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PorphyriaWell the idea of being a vampire is a good thing however the myth of Vampireism has been blown out of porportion complealty.
It started out in the middle ages where a few people with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (Pigmented dry skin) which can be a fatle genetic disorder that leaves it's victims acutley vunerable to skin and eye cancers if they are briefly exposed to the sun or any ultraviolet rays as there bodies cannot produce the enzymes needed to produce the heme, the red pigment in hemeglobin.Garlic stimulates heme production (a reason for it's inclusion in many herbal ablood toxins) and can turn a mild case of porphryia into a servere and painful one.
The only problem is that only 100,000 case exist in the world to date, thus they don't have much medical data on file to help these case and they are still researching into this trying to find a cure.
-The-Freeman-
"Additionally, it was believed that the patients' missing heme could be absorbed through the stomach, correlating with the legends' hematophagy."
It was a false belief..blood upon drinking would be digested and acted upon by various enzymes starting right from the mouth..it would be degraded to a point where no haemoglobin would be left in its original form..moreover very few nutrients/substances are absorbed in the stomach..heme is not amongst them..absorption the intestines job
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