Why do humans bruise easily?

Posted by Master, Specialist II Pham Tuyet Trinh - Head of Inpatient Unit - Cardiovascular Center - Vinmec Times City International Hospital

Easy bruising or easy bruising on impact occurs quite often in many people. This condition often occurs from many causes, can be normal, can also be a sign of disease. Therefore, if you are a person who bruises easily, find out the cause and see a doctor early for timely treatment.

What is the easily bruised person is the question of many people. In fact, when you notice a purple red spot under your skin, you will wonder why it appeared or when it appeared.
When you collide with a hard object such as the headboard, the couch, you will be able to injure the small blood vessels, blood pooling under the skin forming marks. If your skin often has these bruises, it could be due to many reasons. Finding out the causes early will help you have a timely diagnosis and treatment.
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2.1. Old age You may notice, the skin bruises more easily as you get older, because then the subcutaneous fat layer thins, loses the protective layer of blood vessels under the skin, the blood vessels become weaker and more susceptible to damage when slight impact on the table and chair.

2.2. Medications Certain medications, such as Aspirin, Ibuprofen, anticoagulants, and some antibiotics, can cause skin to bruise easily. Corticosteroids make the skin thin and vulnerable, causing easy bruising. You should see your doctor when you notice more black or blue streaks on your skin.
2.3. Family history Like dimples, freckles, hereditary curly hair, easy bruising is also common in people who have many people in their family. Women have thin skin, blood vessels under the skin are small, weak, and easily damaged, so they bruise more easily than men.

2.4. Too much sun exposure Too much sun exposure not only increases the risk of burning, peeling, and skin cancer, but you can also see purple marks on the backs of your hands and arms. Many years of direct exposure also weakens the walls of blood vessels, making them more susceptible to injury and causing bruises.
2.5.Using some supplements Bruising can be a side effect of some over-the-counter supplements like those from ginkgo, ginseng, and garlic. These ingredients can cause blood thinning, making it difficult for the blood to clot when a mild collision can also cause bruises.
2.6. Vitamin C deficiency Vitamin C is an essential vitamin that helps make collagen, an important protein that helps keep blood vessel walls strong. If your diet doesn't have adequate amounts of vitamin C, it can also cause your skin to bruise easily.
Normally, few people have vitamin C deficiency, but for smokers, the rate of vitamin C deficiency is higher. Therefore, smokers have weaker vessel walls and bruise easily.
2.7. Sports are important for health, but when intense activity not only causes muscle pain, some small blood vessels can be slightly stretched, leading to bleeding under the skin. into bruises. You should still be active, but at an intensity that's right for you.
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2.8. Diabetes When you have diabetes and don't control your blood sugar well, over time high blood sugar damages blood vessels, leading to a vulnerable condition that causes bruises and takes a long time to heal.
2.9. Vitamin K deficiency Vitamin K plays a very important role in blood clotting, although not as well as other vitamins. If you don't take vitamin K supplements, you can develop a blood clotting disorder, which makes your skin bruise more easily.
Normal daily diet can absorb enough vitamin K from foods with green leaves. Therefore, for people who appear bruises, it is necessary to check blood clotting tests.

2.10. Blood Diseases Some unexplained bruising can also be a sign of blood disease. For example, you have hemophylia, which is a blood disease caused by a lack of a protein that helps blood cells to clot. Without them, your skin bruises easily. However, this sign is not common but often presents with symptoms of fever, chills and weakness.
2.11. Drinking too much alcohol, beer If you drink less beer, alcohol will not usually cause bruising. However, when you drink beer, wine regularly or drink large amounts, you will notice more purple stains. This is because your liver is no longer working properly, it can't produce enough protein essential for blood clotting, so it easily causes bleeding that creates bruises.
2.12. Cancer Cancer is not the cause of easy bruising. In rare cases purple spots under the skin are a sign of cancer such as leukemia because too many white blood cells in the blood crowd out other blood cells such as red blood cells and platelets, making it difficult to in operation leads to bruising under the skin.
From the above causes it can be seen that bruising can also be an alarming health condition. If the bruises appear more and there are no signs of improvement, the patient needs to go to the medical center soon to find out the cause and have the appropriate treatment.

Reference source: webmd.com