2006-11-19 15:35:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Hemophilia is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that almost always occurs in males. A person has hemophilia when he or she inherits problems with certain blood-clotting factors, making them unable to work properly. Blood-clotting factors are needed to help stop bleeding after a cut or injury and to prevent spontaneous bleeding. The hemophilia gene can contain many different errors, leading to different degrees of abnormality in the amount of clotting factor produced.
2006-11-19 15:38:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hemophilia is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that almost always occurs in males. A person has hemophilia when he or she inherits problems with certain blood-clotting factors, making them unable to work properly. Blood-clotting factors are needed to help stop bleeding after a cut or injury and to prevent spontaneous bleeding. The hemophilia gene can contain many different errors, leading to different degrees of abnormality in the amount of clotting factor produced.
2006-11-19 23:38:53 · answer #2 · answered by zippo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definition
Hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder in which it takes a long time for the blood to clot and abnormal bleeding occurs. This disease affects mostly males. Diseases in this category include:
hemophilia A
hemophilia B
von Willebrand's disease
http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/hemophilia
2006-11-20 01:11:50 · answer #3 · answered by shrinatha_2219 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a condition where people bleed longer than usual. The blood takes longer to clot. People with hemophilia really have to be careful. Their blood lacks something that allows it to clot. So when they get a cut, they bleed like crazy.
2006-11-19 23:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Taffi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi I am nurse, hemophilia is , technically the name for it is free bleeder, you have a low platlete count which is the clotting factor in your blood, vitamin K can help, and even a bruise can cause you to bleed under the skin.
2006-11-19 23:53:00 · answer #5 · answered by Brian B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haemophilia or hemophilia is the name of any of several hereditary genetic illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding.
The bleeding can be external, if the skin is broken by a scrape, cut or abrasion, or it can be internal, into muscles, joints or hollow organs. It might therefore present visibly as skin bruises, or subtly as melena, hematuria, or bleeding in the brain.
2006-11-19 23:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by Pooja Bedi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haemophilia is a genetic disorder . it mainly affects males while females act as carries . there r 13 clotting factors in our blood which through intrinsic and extrinsic path ways help in blood clotting that is v essential to prevent blood loss during injuries . but in haemophiliacs due to the absense of either the clooting factor 8 ( called as haemophilia type a) or the christian factor (called haemophilia type b) clotting process ll be affected .so clotting doesnt take place . so even 4 a small injury these people bleed and lot of blood loss is seen.there may also be internal bleeding in major organs and in the joint manifested as joint pains(arthritis )so the only treatment is fresh blood transfusion .
2006-11-20 05:27:13 · answer #7 · answered by malli_munna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is genetic problem.
If a person is cut, even a very minor cut, the person bleeds and it take lots of doing to stop the bleeding.
There are volumes and volumes written on this disorder, which kills lots of people.
2006-11-20 00:26:39 · answer #8 · answered by minootoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
2006-11-19 23:43:52 · answer #9 · answered by r-mean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fear of blood.
some people faint at the sight of blood. it is a mental condition which can be cured.
2006-11-19 23:41:58 · answer #10 · answered by Pegasus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋