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Can a bruise cause a blood clot?
Every bruise results in minor bleeding and a small blood clot. A blood clot is the body's natural way to stop bleeding and heal the site. If you mean cause a dangerous clot, a bruise is not in a vein. It is more a superficial injury. The only way a clot is dangerous is if it can travel to the heart or brain. Bruises don't cause clots that will travel.
Is hematoma a blot clot?
Sort of - yes. A hematoma, aka contusion, aka bruise is when blood escapes from a broken blood vessel and is visible under the skin. The blood in the tissue will clot.
What is required to clot a blood?
If you mean a good kind of blood clot, Vitamin K is required. If you mean bad blood clot, I don't know.
If bruise apears after blood test what does it mean?
Bruising after a blood test is quite common. Sometimes the site where the blood was taken is not held tightly enough to allow for it to completely clot, allowing blood to seep from the vein and collect under the skin forming a bruise. The bruise will typically go away within a week.
What hemophilia do?
It is a disease where the blood does not clot. Victims bruise easily from very mild touch and can easily bleed to death from minor cuts or scrapes.
Why is there a bump under a bruise?
When you forcibly strike the body hard enough to leave a bruise, you break capillaries under the skin. The blood leaks into surrounding tissue. Any time there is bleeding, even on the inside of the body, a clot forms to stop the bleed. A small clot under a bruise just means your body did its job to begin the very first steps toward healing.
You have dark red spots and an open ulcer on your leg what does this mean?
do i have a blood clot on my leg if i have a light red bruise with a dark red spot in the middle of it
When can a bruise become dangerous?
If the bruise is large, and has a clot under it, the clot can move to sensitive areas of the body (lungs, Heart, brain) and cause further damages: stroke, heart attack etc.
Is it bad if your body is low on iron?
yes, its bad for your body because iron keeps your red blood cells healthy,and we need red blood cells for breathing.. :) it also helps thicken the blood to clot. if your blood can't clot, you just keep bleeding
How do you make bruise look worse?
Yes, rubbing a bruise can make it worse. It encourages circulation, which will make the bruise bleed under your skin more. It can also spread around the blood that has already pooled in the area. At the worst, if there is a clot present, it can cause it to move.
What would happen if the code for a protein that allowed your blood to clot was mutated?
Nonfunctional blood clotting agent will result in a case of hemophilia, and any cut or bruise must be taken very seriously.
Your friend is 14 weeks pregnant and pased a clot of blood is that bad?
yes
