What Causes Bruising on the Skin?
“Echymosis”, which is popularly referred to as bruising or bruising, usually occurs due to bleeding in the vessels close to the skin surface due to physical trauma. With aging, the tendency to ecchymosis increases due to thinning of the skin. The size of the ecchymosis is proportional to the severity of the trauma. For this reason, large-sized ecchymoses that occur spontaneously without being exposed to trauma or due to minor trauma should not be neglected and a specialist should be consulted.
Medications can cause platelet disorders as well.
Medicines and some food supplements, especially some blood thinners, steroids, antidepressants, can cause easy bruising. They may be. However, many medical conditions, especially blood diseases, which cause numerical or structural disorders of the cells called platelets, which are involved in blood clotting, or deficiency of proteins involved in blood clotting, can cause bruising.
How to understand?
Platelet count and function tests, coagulation tests and biochemistry tests should be performed to investigate the cause. Bleeding gums along with bruising, nosebleeds, or excessive and prolonged bleeding after a small cut may be a sign of a serious underlying blood disease. For this reason, these patients should definitely consult a specialist.
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