Low platelet count leads to petechial hemorrhages. They can be seen at the hair roots. Later on you can have bleeding gums and bleeding through your nose. There can be vomiting of blood and bloody diarrhoea.
Platelets in the blood clot to close a wound when this occurs.
When the number of them decreases, you won't have enough to clot and the blood will continue oozing blood.
This is not safe and it is a problem for you as you could lose a lot of blood from a small wound.
This could be arranged by taking in injections or having operations done in the red bone marrow to increase the production and thus increase the number of platelets in your blood.
One major result is the inability to form blood clots during a hemorrhage.
You have more of a tendency to bleed because you cannot form clots as well.
platelets are the one of clotting factor of blood,if platelets goes low number day by day it means that patient is facing may be dengue fever or a thelessemia
it leads to bleeding disorders.
bleed to death
platelet count
Is my platelet count too low at 88
A low platelet count generally puts an individual at high risk of bleeding, or hemorrhage. The underlying cause of a low platelet count could be several diseases ranging from a something benign to HIV or leukemia.
Thrombocytopenic Purpura
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This is medical terminology for a low platelet count condition.
It's abnormal (low).
Platelet parameters on PDW being low is indicative of the probability of increased bleeding. When a platelet count is low, a person may be asymptomatic until injury or surgery.
no, it doesn't mean that there is HIV
low wbc count depicts immunosuppressed patient,with a compromised deffence mechanism,low platelet count means thrombocytopaenia where the patient has a bleeding disorder resulting to excessive blood loss incase of an injury
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