What's the illness called when a person can't see blood? If sees, will faint.
2007-02-08 13:46:48 · 4 answers · asked by GeNiToR 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Vasovagal syncope. It's a fancy word for fainting.This is part of your autonomic nervous system that regulates heart and blood pressure. When seeing blood, the trigger for fainting occurs when your autonomic system just goes haywire, your heart rate slowing and your blood vessel in legs widening; thus creating low blood pressure.This is from either emotional or physiological.
2007-02-08 13:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle_My_Belle 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's an actual illness, it's just called "merciful syncope", in which there is paradoxically excessive parasympathetic discharge in response to seeing blood, which causes acute cardiac depression -- this results in insufficient delivery of blood to the brain, and produces syncope (fainting).
2007-02-08 22:00:19 · answer #2 · answered by citizen insane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you could classify it as hematophobia or something. However, it's not really a disease so much as some folks not having very strong stomachs. I work in the OR, so I don't see too much of that.
2007-02-08 21:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chicken
2007-02-08 21:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by sam 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋