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What Causes Bleeding Through Dressings And Bandages?
This girl stabbed me and as the knife was inside my right leg in my front thigh she pulled it straight down about 6 inches long and as deep as just barely missing my artery s but cut all my muscles I got 23 stitches and staples 12 days ago but I don t understand why I m still bleeding a lot through all my dressings & bandages for and I still have staples in the stitches are dissolvable ones. I am 43 years old and I m 5 3 and I m a female
Wed, 23 Mar 2016
kindly check your sugar and platelet levels. this is sometimes te physiological reason for the wound to not heal. also, reduce ur physical activity or I Advice u to take a proper rest to get rid of additional pressure on the healing mechanism. you can visit a close by specialist who will assess you in person and give u proper advices and care too
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