In the Philippines, there is a woman whose armpits leak milk. “Dermatologists writing in the journal JAAD Case Reports said the patient was born with extra breast tissue on both sides of her underarms, which swelled up after she delivered a baby and produced ‘milky secretions from the overlying hair follicles'”, reports UExpress.
Gizmodo reported:
A 35-year-old Filipino woman may have one of the weirdest real-life superpowers in the world…the woman’s armpits are able to produce breast milk…the added breasts don’t seem to be harming her health…the woman first began to notice something was different about her armpits 15 years ago.
Immediately after her first pregnancy, her armpits began to swell up and produce “milky secretions from the overlying hair follicles.” The phenomenon disappeared once she weaned her child away from breastfeeding but returned after each successive pregnancy, which prompted her latest visit to the doctors. She didn’t experience any other concerning trouble, such as redness, but the “engorgement” of her armpits did seem to get worse with each child she had…Usually, as in this case, the extra breasts aren’t accompanied by areolas or nipples….“Ectopic breast tissue is an uncommon entity,” the doctors wrote, noting it’s only found in around 2% to 6% of women and 1% to 3% of men. Most cases are sporadic, or happen randomly, but about 6% are tied to inherited genetics.
