What would happen if a female hemophiliac got their period?

Question

Would this person bleed to death or do female hemophiliac's never get their period because of it?

Answer 1

They would not bleed to death. They may have longer or heavy periods though

Answer 2

I am a diagnosed female hemophiliac and yes I did have my periods. I started at the age of 10. I flowed extremely heavy. The average female's periods last 3 days and flows about 3 ounces, mine lasted 18 days and flowed 12 ounces. My periods were exactly 28 days apart from the first day to the next first day.

Even though it felt like I was bleeding to death, I didn't. I am now 68, because of my extremely heavy periods I ended up going through a complete hysterectomy just 2 days after my 28th birthday.

It had shocked the entire medical community in my county because they were taught females are only carriers and pass it on to their sons through the X chromosome. Males inherit only one X chromosome, and females inherit two. Supposedly when one of the females X chromosomes is defective she still has the other, and she is diagnosed as a carrier. I am not just a carrier, I am a hemophiliac. It is extremely rare, to hear of a female hemophiliac.

Answer 3

Females are usually just carriers and pass it on to their sons or pass it on to their daughters and their daughters become carriers.It is more common in men than women

Answer 4

And fortunately, very few hemophiliacs are women. Here's a site that discusses the situation.

http://saber.towson.edu/~hull/Hemophil.html

Answer 5

http://www.hemophilia.ca/en/2.5.1.php
women carry the gene for hemophillia but it is extraordinarily rare for them to express the disease, they do however get other "bleeding" disorders, the above link discuss this.