Can leeches kill you?

Question

In movies, leeches can suck you dry. Can they do it in real life?

Answer 1

I doubt that a leech could ever suc one dry unless covered in them and never bothered to take them of.

if there is only one or two attached they could not possibley suck enough blood your body makes millions of blood cells daily

Answer 2

Leeches are not very large and when they are full they fall off. If you had a great number of them on you, perhaps you might feel a little dizzy but I cannot imagine how they could drink your blood faster than your body replenished it.

They might perhaps pass on a blood-borne disease to you and kill you that way.

Alternatively if a person had an allergic reaction to the anticoagulant they inject then maybe they could also cause death in that fashion.

Leeches were used by Dr's once upon a time and are once more coming into favour with the medical world.

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Answer 3

Yes. Leeches suck blood. They are brown black at first and very skinny and short. As they suck blood, they tend to become red and grow fat and long. If you have enough leeches on you, or you leave one for a time, they can kill.

Answer 4

no they cannot. a leech is not large enough to absorb the entire blood supply from a person, it would explode long before it drained you.

Answer 5

There would have to be a lot of them to drain enough blood to kill you. Alternativly, enough Hirudin in you blood stream so you would become kind of a heamophiliac and bleed to death from a bruise or paper cut.

Answer 6

In the 16 +17th century i think they used in the medical profession.

But i don`t know they will kill you. However thinking about it you are wrong your assumption.

Answer 7

No they cant. not enough can be on your body at any one time. Our government is more likely to bleed us dry.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

if hundreds of them, yes, easily.

Answer 10

yes they can.