When it comes to subcutaneous bruising, I think everyone should be familiar with it. After all, bumps will inevitably occur in life, and if you accidentally fall, it may lead to the rupture of subcutaneous capillaries, followed by subcutaneous ecchymosis, bruising and other symptoms, accompanied by a strong sense of pain!
However, some diseases in the advanced stage, patients will also have subcutaneous bleeding points, such as "AIDS" is one of them!
AIDS is also clinically known as "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome", which is called because after HIV infection, patients will have systemic symptoms.
One of the biggest problems is that HIV will continue to invade and destroy the patient's immune system, resulting in serious damage to the immune system, and even complete loss of immune function, followed by a series of syndromes, so that the patient has become the target of multiple diseases!
The main channels of transmission of HIV in the clinic are sexual, blood and mother-to-child, of which transmission by unhealthy sexual behavior is particularly common.
After infection with the virus and the development of an acute phase, symptoms such as fever, flu-like symptoms, rashes or papules can occur, and a small number of patients will also have skin bleeding spots!
If only skin bleeding spots have recently appeared, but there are no other symptoms, this may not be a signal of HIV infection, or it may be another disease in the body, such as the following categories:
1. Senile purpura: This disease generally appears in the elderly over 60 years old and emaciated. Red to purple ecchymos may be seen on the patient's face, neck, back of hands, calves, etc.
And this can last for more than a few weeks, the absorption is relatively slow, and after absorption, it will also leave brown pigmentation spots, in addition to the fact that patients have no other conscious symptoms;
2. Infectious diseases: under normal circumstances, infectious diseases can be accompanied by fever, pallor, palpitations, shock or subcutaneous bleeding and other symptoms.
During a blood routine, an elevated white blood cell count, an increased neutrophil count, and blood cultures can also detect pathogenic bacteria in the patient.
Infectious diseases that cause subcutaneous bleeding are often caused by the formation of toxins and sepsis emboli, causing damage to the capillary wall;
3. Primary thrombocytopenia: this is one of the common clinical blood diseases, which itself belongs to the immune syndrome and is also a common bleeding disease.
The main symptom is the presence of a large number of antiplatelet antibodies in the blood circulation, resulting in excessive destruction of the patient's platelets, which in turn induces a series of symptoms.
And due to abnormal platelet reduction, various ecchymoses may appear on the surface of the patient's body;
4. Serious liver diseases: such as cirrhosis, advanced liver cancer, etc., patients may have different degrees of coagulation disorders.
This is because although the liver does not belong to the hematopoietic and coagulation system, the liver is responsible for secreting various clotting factors and participating in the body's coagulation work.
Therefore, after severe liver damage, patients may have coagulation disorders due to insufficient production of coagulation factors, including subcutaneous bleeding, nosebleeds, bleeding gums, and gastrointestinal bleeding;
5. Aplastic anemia: This disease is also referred to as "re-obstruction" in the clinic, and the main symptoms of patients are bleeding, anemia and infection.
In patients in the acute phase, in addition to severe symptoms and bleeding from the mucous membranes of the skin, it may also cause internal visceral and intracranial hemorrhage, which in turn threatens the patient's life and thus dies;
6. Leukemia: Leukemia is also known as "blood cancer" in the clinic, and the main symptoms are anemia, liver, spleen and lymphadenopathy, bleeding and infection.
This bleeding is not only subcutaneous ecchymosis, but patients may also be accompanied by visceral and intracranial hemorrhage. During the blood routine, the patient's leukocytosis, red blood cells, and thrombocytopenia can be clearly detected.
In addition to the above factors, patients may also have subcutaneous bleeding symptoms when taking drugs, such as aspirin, indomethacin, imidazole drugs commonly used in clinical practice.
Therefore, just by relying on a subcutaneous bleeding point, it is not possible to judge whether you belong to AIDS, and only through accurate examination, combined with medical history and other symptoms can you really diagnose the disease.