Capillary bleeding

Description:

Capillary bleeding is the expiration of blood from a circulatory bed of melayshy vessels (capillaries).

Symptoms of Capillary bleeding:

The separate bleeding vessels are not visible, blood exudes, as from a sponge. Color of blood average between arterial and venous. Blood follows slowly, on drops, and if coagulability its normal, bleeding stops independently.

Reasons of Capillary bleeding:

Capillary bleeding arises owing to damage of the smallest blood vessels (capillaries) at extensive grazes, superficial wounds.

Treatment of Capillary bleeding:

At capillary bleeding loss of blood rather small. Such bleeding can be stopped quickly, having imposed a pure gauze on the bleeding site. Over a gauze put a layer of cotton wool and tie up a wound. If on hand there is neither gauze, nor bandage, then the bleeding place can be tied up a pure handkerchief. It is impossible to impose directly on a wound shaggy fabric as on its fibers there is a large number of bacteria which cause wound infection. For the same reason directly on an open wound it is impossible to impose also vatu.