Random Bruising?

Question

my sister gets random bruises everywhere. If someone touches her on her arm or something like that, she has a bruise there the next day. Whats causing this?

Answer 1

If she is bruising from just being touched it could be a lack of certain vitamins or something more serious. Your parents need to take her to the doctor for check-up and see if the doctor has any ideas.

Answer 2

She could have a protien C defiency, it is most common in women and tends to run in families and is a vitamin deficiency of B6 B12 Zinc and a couple of other vitamins which causing easy bruising and longer heal times. If she gets on a multi vitamin and a b complex vitamin it should help a lot.

Answer 3

Well, if she is not taking any type of blood thinner (i.e. asprin, etc.) then it is likely some kind of hormonal imbalance that is causing the problem. She may need to have blood work done by her doctor to locate the cause. But if she does, then make sure to have her doc check her thyroid, too.

Answer 4

Signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms of hemophilia may include:

Many large or deep bruises
Joint pain and swelling caused by internal bleeding
Unexplained bleeding or bruising
Blood in your urine or stool
Prolonged bleeding from cuts or injuries, or after surgery or tooth extraction
Nosebleeds with no obvious cause
Tightness in your joints
Emergency signs and symptoms of hemophilia may include:

Sudden pain, swelling, and warmth of large joints, such as knees, elbows, hips, and shoulders, and of the muscles of your arms and legs
Bleeding from an injury, especially if you have a severe form of hemophilia
Painful, lasting headache
Repeated vomiting
Extreme fatigue
Neck pain
Double vision
Babies with hemophilia
At first, because of limited mobility, a baby with hemophilia usually won't have many problems related to hemophilia. But as your baby begins to move around, falling and bumping into things, superficial bruises may occur. This bleeding into soft tissue may become more frequent the more active your child becomes.

Three categories of blood proteins play a role in blood clotting:

Procoagulant proteins. These proteins help form clots.
Anticoagulant proteins. These proteins prevent formation of clots.
Fibrinolytic proteins. These proteins help dissolve clots that have formed.
The coagulation process involves blood particles called platelets and procoagulant plasma proteins called clotting factors. The process begins when platelets stick to a blood vessel at the site of an injury. A cascade of enzyme reactions occurs to produce a web-like protein network that encircles the platelets and holds them in place (platelet phase) to form a clot (coagulation phase). In this cascade, each clotting factor is transformed, in turn, from an inactive to an active form.

Hemophilia is caused by a deficiency of one of your blood's clotting factors:

Hemophilia A. The most common type, hemophilia A is caused by lack of enough clotting factor VIII.
Hemophilia B. This second most common type is caused by lack of enough clotting factor IX.
Hemophilia C. This type is rare in the United States. Its cause is a lack of clotting factor XI, and symptoms are generally mild with this type of hemophilia.

Hemophilia A and B occur almost always in boys. Generally, hemophilia A and B pass from mother to son through one of the mother's genes. Everyone has two sex chromosomes, one from each parent. Females inherit an X chromosome from their mother and an X chromosome from their father. Males inherit an X chromosome from their mother and a Y chromosome from their father. The gene that causes hemophilia A or B is located on the X chromosome. This is why men can't pass along the gene that causes hemophilia to their sons. Most women who have the defective gene are simply carriers and exhibit no signs or symptoms of hemophilia. It's also possible for hemophilia A or B to occur through spontaneous gene mutation.

Hemophilia C can occur in both boys and girls. The defective gene that causes hemophilia C can also be passed on to children by mothers and fathers, but it follows an inheritance pattern different from that which occurs with hemophilia A and B.

Answer 5

from experience in my family, it may be raynauds disease, a disease where blood doesn't circulate very well to the hands and feet and makes your limbs cold. this can lead to easy bruising. another good candidate is celiac disease which is a weird 'reaction' to glucose. you might want to consider these two along with sickle cell and anemia.

Answer 6

I don't know, but when I start getting unexplained bruises, I take vitamin C and they stop.