Hello! I work as a doctor for 21 years. My name is George O. Sapego. This article will tell you how you take for a ride stories about thick and viscous blood.
It happens that you watch a movie, and then shouted: "It's not what you think!" And just show someone blushing with shame. Presented? This is what happens in the movie. And it happens in some medical issues.
There are topics about health that even doctors are confused. Doctors prefer to not to go. It seems that you have to explain to the patient the subject, but somehow very scary, because it is easy to get confused and disgraced.
I propose to take the risk and plunge into a very nasty issue. it is called "sticky blood".
Modern theme
Everyone has heard about the viscous blood. Everyone knows that it is necessary to thin the blood, so as not had a heart attack with insults. That's just wrong all in this thread. We need this thing to sort through.
So. Viscous blood - this is such a terrible nonsense, which are afraid to look even doctors.
As it is seeing people who are not related to medicine
Many people think that blood can be like jelly. Then she could hardly pumped out of the finger. Then it is compacted in the clot and blocks blood flow in the heart or in the head. Such blood must be diluted with water and take-thinning drugs or herbs. It's all nonsense!
Make no mistake. The idea about the thick blood came from doctors. They drummed it into my head to people, and now this idea has turned into the most "implementation". It lives its own life and acquires fantastic details. I confirm that it was very tempting to call clots in the arteries of blood clots. This engaging simplicity, and people understand it. In fact, nothing is all started.
When a heart attack or stroke, blood normally liquid
Just our blood very well knows how to make blood clots. So it seals the hole in the blood vessels. Through the hole in the artery quickly poured a lot of blood. From this blood loss can die. Therefore, our body is closely monitoring the blood vessels. If the vessel wall is something going on there immediately formed a clot.
All would be nothing, but we all (and even children) in the arteries have atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerotic plaques grow, disrupt blood flow and may at some point be broken. When the plaque in the artery is torn, our body decides that it is all torn artery and immediately makes that place a blood clot. This closes the flow of blood clot and stroke are obtained with a heart attack. So you can die.
Therefore, if a person has a high risk of stroke or heart attack, he prescribed drugs that prevent blood clots to form. These drugs do not make blood fluid. These drugs are just not allowed in combat anxiety vessels.
Around the same story with blood clots in the veins
There are no veins of atherosclerosis, but the blood in them moves slowly. We have a chance to blood cells stick together in a pile, which then snowballed become a huge blood clot. From this vein thrombus fly in the heart, then the lungs and block an artery there. Of venous thrombosis also prescribe medication.
All these medicines are not thin the blood. They just do not make it possible to form clots. Blood clot - this is not thick jelly. It is rather a routine blood cells that cling to each other.
This blood viscosity
And now this viscous blood. Sometimes blood cells or as many viscous protein that blood becomes viscous. These diseases like tumor in the blood.
Or even a person does not have enough oxygen. For example, in his diseased lungs, and it is suffocating. Then, too, will be a lot of blood cells.
This happens rarely. Only a few cases per 100,000 population per year. So do not be afraid and do not bother with this idea.
Of excess blood from the patient is itching, pain in hands and feet, dizziness, blurred vision and a lot of other symptoms.
All such excess blood is drained into a sewer. Just do bloodletting. It happens that people every week released per liter of blood.
And you know what the best part? This extra volume of blood does not necessarily lead to thrombosis. Scientists do not even fully understand exactly how thick blood clots have formed. After all, there is no damage to the vessels. The body is no need to plug the holes clots in the arteries.
One can imagine that a large number of blood cells like the salted tomatoes in the bank. They are pressed to each other so that they themselves from themselves squeezed juice. The body does not like the juice, and it does in fact place the thrombus.
Let the blood
If thick blood with lots of cells leads to thrombosis, the most healthy people would be anemic. Because their blood is similar to an empty soup, in which some poor lonely splashing cells. But these people with anemia not healthy. They have heart attacks are even more frequent.
For this reason, excess or shortage of water in principle to blood clots is not affected. If a lot of water, the kidneys will lead her. If water is scarce, the kidneys slow down. It has no effect on blood clots.
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