when a patient changes color

when a patient changes color
when a patient changes color

After her cinema session, a young woman did not feel well. In his car, heat emanates from one side of his face and beads of sweat fall from his forehead. It’s the same for his hair, where only the left part is wet, while the other is completely dry…

When she looked in the rearview mirror, the young woman had the impression that sheour face was as if cut with a knife with an almost rectilinear demarcation: bright red on one side and extremely pale on the other. Worried, she stops her car to get some fresh air. With a trembling hand, she takes out her compact, but the symptoms have disappeared.

The phenomenon repeats itself the next morning when you wake up with different colors: half of his face is blue and the other half is red... A professional meeting forces him to wear different makeup on the two parts of his face in order to hide these strange manifestations. When he arrives, his work colleague discreetly tells him that one side of his face is dark and the other pale. The colors are now reversed…

Four years passed before she was diagnosed


Marco Peroni

The young woman decides to consult a health professional. Apart from this facial phenomenon, the latter is in great shape. But his repeated crises are ruining his daily life… She can no longer play sports or go to restaurants with her friends. “Four years passed before she was diagnosed,” emphasizes Dr. Marco Peroni.
General practitioner, endocrinologist, dermatologist, rheumatologist… No specialist can find explanations for these symptoms... The 25-year-old young woman no longer really has hope when she arrives in the office of Doctor Marco Peroni. The neurologist completely takes over the patient’s medical file. A path poorly exploited by his predecessors will put him on the right track…

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