Doctors weigh in on Kate Beckinsale's bizarre claims grief 'burned a hole' in her food pipe and reveal what might be behind her extreme weight loss

Fans person precocious fretted complete a operation of sudden, superior symptoms suffered by nan actress Kate Beckinsale.

The British star, 50, has caused interest connected societal media complete respective unexplained wellness scares complete nan past year, including spending weeks successful nan infirmary and dropping truthful galore pounds that fans called her 'too thin.' 

However, this week nan Van Helsing prima revealed what caused her wellness to return a nosedive: grief. 

Beckinsale said connected Instagram that successful nan weeks pursuing nan decease of her stepfather and her mother's shape 4 cancer diagnosis, she spent six weeks successful nan infirmary 'because the condolences had burned a spread successful my esophagus, which made maine vomit copious amounts of blood.

She added that she recovered eating 'very hard'. Though Beckinsale's wellness issues whitethorn look extreme, doctors told DailyMail.com that nan 'brain is tin of causing profound changes' successful nan body, including terrible gastrointestinal distress and weight loss.  

And maintaining a consciousness of humor, moreover pinch mooning, could beryllium an 'antidote to stress.' 

Beckinsale first alarmed fans earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile she posted since-deleted clips of herself dancing connected Instagram. Several commented pinch concerns astir nan actress' shrinking figure.

Beckinsale revealed that she had spent six weeks successful nan hospital, 'due to copiously vomiting blood' from a Mallory Weiss tear. This is simply a divided successful nan soul furniture of nan esophagus, nan conduit that connects nan pharynx to nan stomach. 

This wounded typically occurs wherever nan esophagus and tummy meet owed to terrible vomiting, dense lifting, prolonged coughing, and trauma to nan thorax aliases abdomen. 

Dr David D Clarke, soul medicine and gastroenterology expert and president of nan Psychophysiological Disorders Association, told DailyMail.com that accent and terrible condolences tin 'slow nan emptying of nan tummy to nan constituent that vomiting occurs.'

'Vomiting tin origin a tear successful nan little esophagus that tin past hemorrhage.' 

Most Mallory Weiss tears tally betwixt 0.75 and 1.5 inches long, aliases nan width of a nickel aliases two, according to nan Cleveland Clinic. Vomiting humor is nan astir communal symptom, occuring successful complete 85 percent of patients. 

Most patients heal connected their own, but immoderate tears require surgery. 

Beckinsale's vomiting could person been owed to a number of factors. For example, crying for agelong periods of clip aliases displaying different aggravated emotions tin activate nan body's accent response. 

Dr Randy Brazie, licensed psychiatrist and co-author of 'The Steadfast Leader,' told DailyMail.com that beardown emotions for illustration condolences tin trigger nan vagus nerve, which regulates processes for illustration digestion.

'This tin lead to a important summation successful gastric acerb secretion and gut musculus activity,' he said.

As good arsenic vomiting, accrued acerb levels, he noted, could lead to ulcers triggering an esophageal tear. 

Eating pinch an esophageal tear tin beryllium vulnerable because nan perforation allows nutrient to leak into nan chest, causing resporatory issues. This could person near Beckinsale incapable to eat aliases restricted eating  to via a tube, resulting successful weight loss. 

Around nan clip of her stepfather's decease successful January, insiders besides revealed that Beckinsale was hardly eating owed to affectional distress. 

'Stress, grief, and depression tin besides lead to diminished appetite which tin lead to weight nonaccomplishment successful immoderate cases. If nan emptying of nan tummy is slowed that tin origin a personification to consciousness afloat aft little than their accustomed intake and to beryllium nauseated aliases vomit,' Dr Clarke said. 

'All of that would lend to reduced nutrient intake which could past origin weight loss.'

Beckinsale besides revealed connected societal media earlier this twelvemonth that 'stress, shock, and grief' led to a flare of her mast compartment disease, which Dr Clarke said apt refers to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS).

MCAS is simply a illness successful which nan mast cells - humor cells responsible for allergic reactions - to trigger a merchandise of chemicals starring to allergy symptoms. 

Symptoms see itchy tegument aliases a raised, reddish tegument rash, emotion light-headed aliases faint and swelling of nan throat, rima and lingua which tin lead to breathing difficulties. 

Dr Clarke said that while 'it is possible' that condolences exacerbated Beckinsale's alleged MCAS, astir beingness symptoms of condolences and affectional accent are caused by nan encephalon alternatively than mast cells.