what would happen if your body have too much blood red cells?

Answer 1

In polycythemia, too many red blood cells are produced. Polycythemia vera is polycythemia with no identifiable cause. The blood becomes thicker, blood flows less easily through small blood vessels, and blood clots are more likely to form.

Polycythemia vera is relatively uncommon. The average age at which the disorder is diagnosed is 60. Polycythemia vera is more common among men.

In many people with polycythemia vera, too many platelets and too many white blood cells are also produced. Sometimes excess blood cells are produced by the spleen and liver as well as by the bone marrow. As a result, these organs enlarge. Polycythemia vera makes the spleen enlarge in another way. Normally, the spleen removes abnormal, old, or damaged red blood cells. In polycythemia vera, the spleen has to remove more and more red blood cells from the bloodstream.

Polycythemia vera progresses slowly. After many years, it may progress to myelofibrosis. Rarely, it progresses to leukemia. If not treated, polycythemia vera can become life threatening.

The cause of polycythemia vera is, by definition, unknown. If the cause of polycythemia can be identified, it is called secondary polycythemia.

Symptoms
Many people do not have any symptoms for many years. Usually, the first symptoms are weakness, fatigue, headache, light-headedness, shortness of breath, and night sweats. Vision may be affected. People may have blind spots or see flashes of light. The gums may bleed, and small cuts may bleed more than expected. The skin, especially the face, often looks red. People may itch all over, particularly after bathing or showering. The hands and feet may tingle or feel as if they are burning. Rarely, pain is felt in the bones.

The abdomen may feel uncomfortably full because the liver and spleen enlarge. Abdominal pain may result if thickened blood or blood clots interfere with blood flow to the lining of the stomach and causes it to erode. This erosion may lead to ulcers.

Other symptoms can result if a clot blocks a large or crucial blood vessel.

Diagnosis
Polycythemia may be diagnosed during routine blood tests, even before a person has any symptoms. The percentage of red blood cells in the blood (hematocrit) and the amount of hemoglobin, which is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells, are abnormally high. The platelet and white blood cell count may also be high.

A high hematocrit usually indicates polycythemia. However, another test to confirm the diagnosis is occasionally needed. In this test, red blood cells are withdrawn, labeled with a very small amount of a radioactive substance, and injected back into the body. The total number of red blood cells in the body (red blood cell mass) can be calculated by checking for radioactive cells in a sample of blood withdrawn after a certain time.

Once polycythemia is diagnosed, doctors determine whether the disorder is polycythemia vera or secondary polycythemia. The person's medical history may help, but sometimes additional tests are needed. For example, blood tests to measure the level of erythropoietin may be done. The level is very low in polycythemia vera but is normal or high in secondary polycythemia. A bone marrow biopsy may also be done.

Treatment and Outlook
Polycythemia vera cannot be cured. But treatment can control it and reduce the risk of problems, such as the formation of blood clots.

Treatment focuses on reducing the number of red blood cells. The usual way is to remove blood from the body in a procedure called phlebotomy. The procedure is similar to donating blood. A pint of blood is removed every other day until the hematocrit reaches a normal level. The level is kept normal by removing blood every few months, as needed.

Phlebotomy may increase the platelet count, which is often already high because of the polycythemia, and does not reduce the size of an enlarged liver or spleen. So people who undergo phlebotomy may also need drugs to suppress production of platelets. The chemotherapy drug hydroxyurea, given by mouth, is often used. It lowers the platelet count and thus reduces the risk of clots. If hydroxyurea has bothersome side effects or reduces the white blood cell count too much, anagrelide may be used instead. It also lowers the platelet count and reduces the risk of clots.

If phlebotomy is ineffective, interferon-alpha (a drug that affects the immune system) may be given as injections.

Other drugs can help control some of the symptoms. For example, antihistamines can help relieve itching. Aspirin can relieve burning sensations in the hands and feet as well as bone pain. Bathing in water that is warm rather than hot and patting rather than rubbing dry may help.

Without treatment, most people who have polycythemia vera live less than 2 years. Death usually results from blockage of a crucial blood vessel. When treated, most people live at least 10 to 15 years.

Answer 2

Too Many Red Blood Cells

Answer 3

Too Much Blood In Body

Answer 4

There's a name for this disease, but I don't remember what it is-- there's a bone marrow disorder where the precursor cells just keep on churning out far more red cells than are needed. Your blood turns to sludge and can't flow through your blood vessels very well or at all (normal blood is less than half red blood cells, and more than half plasma (fluid)). The red blood cells are suspended in the plasma, and when there are too many of them the blood gets too thick. It can be managed by draining large amts of blood, centrifuging it and returning just the plasma to the body, but it is fatal eventually. Imagine taking a glass of iced tea and stirring in so much sugar that it is too thick to suck through a straw. That's pretty much what happens.

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Answer 6

Stemcells have nothing to do with red blood cells--- whoever wrote that about. I also dont see the connection with "the body of Christ" either. From the other posts, the only thing I see really missing is the important mechanisms of redblood cells. If you are asking the significance of RBC, its notable to read up on cellular respiration, specifically the electron-transport chain a.k.a. substrate-level phosphorilation. RBC are most commonly produced in the femor (thigh bone) and if I remember, and are used for about 3 months before being recycled.

Answer 7

If you go to a doctor he may suggest you donate blood or else they will have to remove some once or twice a month. Not deadly but can make for some dizziness and a few other minor complaints

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Human blood never rests. It never stops cleansing and feeding each cell in the body from the moment we are born until we die. Each cell is bathed in this cleansing stream throughout its entire life span, and owes its moment-to-moment existence to this never ending supply stream. In the physical body the blood uses a process of exchange to accomplish its work. It goes like this: a red blood cell travels through the lungs until it reaches a very thin membrane which separates the blood from the air moving through the lung. This membrane is so thin that the red blood cell can absorb oxygen from the air through it. The hemoglobin in the red blood cell latches on to the oxygen and holds it for the long journey to the various parts of the body. At this same time the red blood cell is releasing its load of carbon dioxide through the membrane out into the lung to be exhaled. The red blood cell never stops during this process. This process happens while it is moving through the very small vessels in the lung, being pushed along by the force of contraction of the heart beat. The Creator made sure that there would be enough time for all the red blood cells to complete their exchange before they leave the lungs. Once they leave the lungs, they travel to every organ, tissue and system in the body, making sure that each cell has its needs met at all times. The path that the red blood cell takes after it leaves the lungs appears to be random, but each red blood cell is guided by the Creator so that each cell in the body can receive its full nourishment of oxygen and can also release its load of carbon dioxide to the red blood cell, so it can be transported back to the lungs to be exhaled. If this nourishing stream ever stops, then the level of carbon dioxide quickly builds up to poisonous levels in the cells. Now, let me pose what sounds like a silly question. What would happen if the body tissues wanted to hang on to their carbon dioxide and not go through the process of exchange with the blood.? The answer to this question is so obvious that it appears absurd. The body tissues would die and death of the entire body would soon follow. It is obvious what would happen in the human body if any of the body parts refused to allow this exchange through the blood. Now let me ask the same question of the Body of Christ. What happens when a believer refuses to give up his sin to the cleansing power of the Blood? What would happen if he stubbornly refused to release his sin and let the Blood cleanse and renew him? He would loose the only provision God has made for cleansing from sin. Nothing else in the world can substitute for the cleansing power of the Blood of Christ. If a sinner refuses to release his sin and be cleansed by the Blood then he stays in spiritual death. In the human blood each cell must release its toxins to the cleansing power of the blood. In the Body of Christ each believer must release his or her own personal sin to the cleansing power of Christ's Blood. In return, he receives not just cleansing, but eternal life, deeper sanctification, and the very presence of Jesus within. Who would not want such an exchange? Anyone foolish enough to want to retain his sin and refuse the exchange of the Blood is a fool indeed.

Answer 9

that is call High Blood Pressure and we all have hear of that ,watch what you eat