Hemorrhage under the skin

Hemorrhage under the skin is usually easy to recognize. For example, if you get hurt and the blood from the damaged vessels seeps into the surrounding tissue, you will see a bruise. If you are bitten by an insect and you are constantly combing this place, then it is clear what is causing the local bleeding. If every time during menstruation you notice small hemorrhages under your skin, you most likely know that this happens in many women, and do not worry.

But if you suddenly tear under your skin for no apparent reason, you have to think about the next.

Reaction to a medicine . Anticoagulants or aspirin, "liquefying" the blood, it is easier to give you a bruise or bleeding with a trauma or cut. Suspect any medicine (quinine in the tonic, when you mix it with gin or take in the form of pills to prevent leg cramps, quinidine for the heart, antibiotics, diuretics) if you start to heal under the skin and make a bruise easier than ever.

An allergic reaction can make your blood vessels more permeable, allowing blood to drain through their walls and come out under your skin. Many autoimmune diseases also give this effect.

Leukemia (blood cancer) affects the bone marrow, replacing healthy cells that help control blood clotting, on tumor cells that do not.

Viral disease can reduce the number of blood plates, platelets (blood components that play an important role in clotting), causing hemorrhage under the skin and, more importantly, internal bleeding.

If your child has a slight bruise, a superficial bruise appears, then he may have a hereditary defect in the blood coagulation system. But if the hemorrhage is deep under the skin and comes from the slightest trauma, hemophilia is possible.

Bleeding, which always happens in the same place , for example from the nose or intestines, can reflect the hereditary pathology of specific small blood vessels. Conversely, when hemorrhages are ubiquitous , but most noticeable on the legs, you probably have some kind of general disorder of blood or blood vessels.

Heredity is very important . If you suspect a hereditary disease like hemophilia or weakened walls of small vessels, it is very important to know if such symptoms were with your relatives. If you marry a close relative, you greatly increase the risk that your children will have hereditary pathological bleeding.

If you started to easily get under the skin and, in addition, turned yellow - you probably have liver disease : it does not form a sufficient amount of vitamin K to properly drain your blood.

Older people sometimes have large purple spots superficially under the skin, mostly on the hands and feet. This occurs when the aging skin loses its fat pad and makes the adjacent blood vessels more vulnerable to damage. These haemorrhagic areas in the skin do not mean that you also have internal bleeding.

Sometimes purple spots are a consequence of not aging, but Cushing's syndrome caused by excessive formation of cortisone in the adrenal glands. The disease can be localized in them or in the pituitary gland of the brain. Likewise, if you take too much cortisone for a long time, you may experience bleeding; The body is unable to distinguish between cortisone in a pill from the one that it itself excessively forms.

Symptom: hemorrhage under the skin

What can it mean? What to do with him?
Local injury. Stop the bleeding.
Reaction to a medicine. Identify the medicine and stop taking it.
Allergic reaction. Antihistamines, steroids.
Leukemia (affecting the bone marrow). Chemotherapy.
Viral infection that acts on blood coagulability. Cortisone, removal of the spleen, if the process continues.
Congenital defect of the blood coagulation system. Medicines.
Hemophilia. Medicines.
Liver disease. Diet, medication.
Aging skin. Without treatment.
Cushing's syndrome. Operation, medicine.
Excessive intake of cortisone. Reduce the dose.