What's the genetically-inherited disease which prevents someone's blood from clotting properly?\n\neg: They bleed loads and loads when they get just a tiny little cut >_<
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Hemophilia is group of hereditary bleeding disorders of specific blood clotting factors. There are two main types of hemophilia: A and B.\n\nWhat causes Hemophilia?\n\nHemophilia is caused by an inherited sex-linked recessive trait. The defective gene is located on the X chromosome.\n\nThe severity of symptoms can vary with this disease, and the severe forms become apparent early on. Bleeding is the hallmark of the disease and typically occurs if an infant is circumcised. Additional bleeding manifestations make their appearance when the infant becomes mobile. Mild cases may go unnoticed until later in life when try occur in response to surgery or trauma. Internal bleeding may happen anywhere, and bleeding into joints is common. Risk factors are a family history of bleeding and being male.\n\nWhat are the Symptoms?\n\nSome of the symptoms are: bruising, spontaneous bleeding, bleeding into joints and associated pain and swelling, gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract hemorrhage, blood in the urine or stool, excessive and prolonged bleeding from cuts, tooth extraction, surgery bruises that are unusual in location or number, nosebleeds that won't stop, and painful or swollen joints\n\nHow is Hemophilia Diagnosed?\n\nDoctors diagnose hemophilia by performing a set of blood tests. Coagulation studies involving many tests are performed if the person tested is the first one in the family to have a bleeding disorder. Once the defect has been identified, other family members will need less testing to diagnose the disorder.\n\nMedical Complications?\n\nSome of the medical consequences from hemophilia are: Chronic joint deformities, Intracerebral hemorrhage is another possible complication.\n\nCan Hemophilia be Cured?\n\nCurrently, there is no cure for hemophilia. However, it can be managed with medications, such as: clotting factor replacement therapy.
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I had one in the same place and the doctor finally had to go up with a "basket" and retrieve it.\n\nThe pain comes when they are moving because they are cutting along the way.  The blood comes when they are moving for the same reason.   When they stop, the pain hurts and the bleeding stops.\n\nDon't get your hopes up.  That sucker WILL come back to haunt you until you pass it or a doctor has to "go get it".  Good luck.  Pops
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my mom always told me that was just old blood.. i always get it in the beginning and end of mine\n\nand it's usually very light\n\nso it's probably just old blood!
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It has to do with genetics.  Breeding back to someone of close blood ties leads to genetic deformities and diseases.  There are many examples available, including the so-called disease of royalty, free-bleeders, or hemophiliacs.
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Blood is everything!! You do not want children with problems, do you?\n\nFor your blood type, your best match is: \n\nType O\n\nA+ and B+ can cause hemogoblinia, which causes small stature in offspring and can cause clawlike hands to form\n\nA+ and A can cause 'Vampirism' which results in offspring that tends to stay out late, wear dark clothes, and engage in orgiastic bloodletting parties.\n\nO is the 'black' of blood. It goes with everything.
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This is due to a defective X chromosome. As a man has only one he is more likely to be colour blind. Females have two X chromosomes so are much less likely to have the condition. Hemophilia where the blood does not clot works the same way.
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You probably had an abnormal result.   \n\n If you or a close family member has ever had a dangerous blood clot or deep vein thrombosis (DVT), there is a strong chance that you carry the gene called factor V Leiden.\n\nIf so, you can take steps to protect against blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and other life-threatening health problems.\n\nGenes and lifestyle risks – such as smoking, birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, being overweight, and prolonged immobility – can combine to increase your risk of blood clots.
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bud_leaf_... answered it for me, but generally, if you put all of the generation on a pedigree (a family tree that lists similar traits), the carrier always passes the genes on to the offsspring. because the carrier gences are both recessive, if the person mates with another carrier, or a victim the offspring WILL get the disease, unless if it is genetically altered. if the carrier mates it a non carrier with  dominant gene (example, Tt) the offspring will be a carrier. If the mate does not have the disease with both dominant(TT) the offspring will either not be a carrier, or be a carrier. but with the case of hemophelia,it is a sex-linked disease, so the males will be more likely to get it because they have ONLY ONE X CHROMOSOME, WHILE FEMALES HAVE TWO, WHERE THE SECOND  X ACTS AS A BACKUP. THe females will be carriers, while, sadly, the males will be victims. That is a example of a SEX-LINKED DISEASE. It really depends on what type the disease is, though (sex-linked, or just genetic)
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Your mother should be very careful with this.  She possibly may need to go on to medication.  My mother (who is overweight) always experienced blood clots in her legs.  She would treat them as they came/went (with heat and massage) until one traveled up her leg, into her heart (where it loged itself) and pieces began breaking off...one to her brain causing a stroke and one to her lung.  She now take warafin (blood thinners) and is going for weight loss surgery so she won't have to take them anymore.  There is a definite relation between weight and the occurance of clots.\nPlease get your mom to go to her MD...prevention is the best medicine!!  Let me tell you...teaching my mom the alphabet, how to read and write (after the stroke) was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
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I am not sure how serious honey, but this definately is not normal..Have you told your mother or an adult about this? You really need to, because blood clots are nothing to mess around with.  It might be something that can be corrected very easily with medication.  I would not wait until something really bad happens.  Please talk with someone today about this.  The longer you wait the worse it is going to get.  Everything is going to be ok : )
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My mom used to have a blood test machine that talked to tell her what to do when, and what the results were. It was kind of big, but it worked great for her since she couldn't see well. Ask your doctor about it.
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It could definitely be hereditary. Sometimes, doctors can perscribe something stronger than the over the counter stuff. You should probably consult a dermotologist.
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its when two or more people cute themselves a little and out their cuts to eachother so their blood goes into eachother. the signigicance is that you get "closer" to that person because you now have some of their blood in you which rele isnt that much but w&#92;e. and if you arent the same blood type your body would just kill the foreign cells...but i guess its more of and emothional and symbolic thing than ahything else
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Hemophilia is not a vitamin deficiency.  It is definitely a lack of a clotting factor.  General hemophilia, or Hemophilia A, is simply a lack of Factor VIII.  Secondarily, iron deficiencies are common, but not a primary cause of Hemophilia A.  Hemophilia B is a Factor IX deficiency.  Von Willebrand Disease is a bleeding disorder caused by a defect or deficiency of a blood clotting protein called von Willebrand Factor.  Thrombophilia, which is also a hemophilia condition where the person is subject to excessive clotting, can be caused by protein C deficiency, protein S deficiency, and anti-thrombin deficiency.  There are other inherited conditions which can also cause Thrombophilia as well.\n\nHTH
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If I'm reading you right . . . no, it's not genetic, but it CAN  be hereditary.  People can't teach their kids what they themselves don't know.  So it is a cycle.
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DEP.... direct pressure on the cut, elevate if possible and use a pressure point if the bleeding won't stop. place a bandage over the wound but don't take it off until you are sure that it has stopped, you could cause the clotting to stop and it will bleed more.
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I can only speak from my own experience.  The disease my son had required that he get transfusions as often as every day.  The blood he received was not on the list of charges we received (even though he was covered by insurance, the hospital he was at was not a part of our insurance and we got an itemized list of all charges).  Now, perhaps people ARE charged for the actual blood they receive, but there is a law that requires all people are given medical care regardless of their ability to pay.  They won't be left to suffer or die.  When my husband did not have insurance, he was still given excellent care, he just ended up with a large bill at the end of it all.\n\nAnother disclaimer...the blood he received was not from Red Cross, it was from a "local" blood bank.