How does hemophilia affect your blood?

Answer 1

Haemophilia lowers blood plasma clotting factor levels of the coagulation factors needed for a normal clotting process. Thus when a blood vessel is injured, a temporary scab does form, but the missing coagulation factors prevent fibrin formation, which is necessary to maintain the blood clot. Thus a haemophiliac does not bleed more intensely than a normal person, but can bleed for a much longer amount of time. In severe haemophiliacs even a minor injury could result in blood loss lasting days, weeks, or not ever healing completely. In areas such as the brain or inside joints, this can be fatal or permanently debilitating.

In short, it makes your wounds harder to heal/takes longer for them to heal.
Hemophilia is found in the blood. It is a disease that causes the blood to not clot properly.

Answer 2

They cannot stop bleeding which means they have to be very careful. Probably also entails many trips to the hospital or at least special procedure even for minor cuts. They would probably also avoid shaving.

Answer 3

Hemophilia is caused by the deficiency of a specific protein in an individual's blood. This protein assists in clot formation and thus an individual with hemophilia bleeds from an injury longer than an individual without hemophilia.

Frequent bleeding can lead to permanent joint damage, muscle and skeletal damage. With treatment, bleeding of this type can be dramatically decreased and effectively eliminate the permanent damage.

With today's treatment, hemophilia does very little to most individuals accept force them to spend a few minutes getting an intravenous medication either as needed or on a regular basis. The larger impact is on the financial end where having hemophilia makes health insurance extremely important as the medication is unbelievably expensive.