Other names: hemorrhage, hemorrhage

Bleeding can be divided into the external, when the blood is poured out of the body and interior(into tissue or body cavities).

The usual cause is a bleeding injury, whether sharp or blunt force. Internal bleeding is dangerous because it is hidden from sight and its importance is often underestimated. It may act only incipient signs of shock.

Furthermore, we can divide bleeding at the arterial (an injury to the artery, the blood is bright red and the injured vessel vystřikuje according to the frequency of cardiac events), venous (dark blood from the wound flows freely) and capillaries (the least dangerous, it is usually light bleeding eg. From scrapes ). For larger injuries are mostly a mixed bleeding, ie a combination of all three types.

Bleeding into the tissue can be caused by non injury states. This is in particular the insufficient strength of the vascular walls during their inflammation, autoimmune diseases, vitamin C deficiency, treatment with corticosteroids etc. These diseases may manifest among other things, frequent nosebleeds, sowing purpura subcutaneous bleeding, bruising after only light contact, heavy menstrual bleeding, etc.

Hardly stoppable cause bleeding can be a deficiency or malfunction of platelets, calcium deficiency or congenital deficiency of any of the protein clotting factors (haemophilia, expressions overwhelmingly males only, females are transmitters of disease through generations).

When suspicion of the disease should see a GP or specialist hematology clinic. The doctor will check your blood laboratory with regard to the quality of blood clotting, enough platelets, possibly on suspicion of hemophilia will be carried out special investigations to determine the activity of clotting factors.