Does it just stay there forever? Where does it go in the first place? Does it dry up? If so, how?
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It stays there for the rest of your life, which is very very short unless the bleeding is stopped immediately.
It does not stay there forever. Generally your body reabsorbs blood.
Bruises are a good example. For larger quantities of blood you may need surgery to relieve or drain the blood from your body cavity or interstitial space. Draining this blood doesn’t remove all of it, some of it will still be absorbed.
It doesn’t dry up, it clots.
A very basical description of how it clots is because of a series of enzymes called prothrombin and thrombin. Prothrombin stimulates more thrombin and thrombin can stimulate clotting factors. Fibrin is basically a sticky protein that can form a mesh to collect platelets and then other blood cells into a single mass.
Platelets and fibrin bind together to become as solid mass(or clot!).
If you are more interested in the minutiae of the clotting process, look up the coagulation cascade.
Macrophages are a type of white blood cell, they can digest other cells. This includes digesting blood that has spilled and clotted within your body. This is what happens to internal bleeding including why bruises fade over time.
I think in part it depends where the bleeding occurred. My mother was recently hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer in her stomach. Generally what goes into the stomach comes out another way. We were told to expect that, but still fairly terrifying nonetheless.
So all of your organs are packed together in your body. There’s space between them, and they’re covered in various layers of lubricated tissue that stops them irritating when they rub against each other. The tissue has different names depending on where it is but some examples are pleura (around the lungs) and peritoneum (around the abdominal organs).
When you bleed internally it’s usually talking about an organ leaking blood into one of these spaces – the gaps between organs. Some hollow organs like the stomach might bleed into their insides (like during an ulcer) but most solid organs will rupture and have the blood drain out of them (since there’s nowhere inside them to bleed into).
The most famous and dangerous spots for bleeding are around the brain, around the lungs, around the abdomen, around the pelvic organs, and in the gap between your thigh muscles. Why there? Because they’re the biggest spaces and you can drain your entire blood volume into some of them, so doctors always remember to check those 5 if they’re worried.
Blood in these spaces is treated like a bruise – it eventually clots and then the body’s healing systems gradually reabsorb it, first by breaking down the cells and then carrying it back into the bloodstream (immune cells can do that, they have special barrier-crossing capabilities that would take way too long to explain).
If the bleeding is internal, it doesn’t really matter because that’s where the blood is supposed to be.
I’ve had internal bleeding (abdomen) and without surgery to stop it, it keeps filling you up. Tiny amounts are just reabsorbed (eg irritation from ovulation in women can cause a tiny bleed).
In my case I had a slow bleed for 2 weeks so it had pooled in my lower abdomen and was sloshing up around my lungs when I lay down. A lot of it had clotted around my organs so they had to peel the clots out when they opened me up.
Your cells from Cells At Work use 3M tape and patch the internal injury. And the Macrophages mop them up.
Hello while I might not know the exact details of what goes on inside a body I have hemophilia A severe a bleeding condition where my blood can’t clot at all. I have near constant internal bleeding and bruises. But I infuse myself with the clotting factor I’m missing that is extracted from normal people blood.
My biggest issues is not bruises while they look bad they don’t hurt it’s the bleeding you can’t see, joint bleeds. Bleeding into the joint sucks you lose range of motion and are in pain non stop. I do t know how to explain it but I can sometimes feel the cut inside my joint because you feel as it bleeds and pressure build up when you move.
It’s called hemoarthrosis bleeding into a joint.
So i infuse my factor goes to the site and clots the blood what next? Well the body cleans up the blood and I can move again. the body can’t tell the difference from blood and joint tissue and over time you develop arthritis. I have lost range of motion in my left elbow and my left ankle from years of repeated bleeding and swelling.
I have never been suggested draining a joint of the bleed because it will cause even more bleeding but I assume it can be done to people without bleeding disorders.
But yeah I know it’s not as detailed as others and I’m really just telling what doctors have told me and personal experience but internal bleeding is my life!
If you have any question feel free to ask I’m more than happy to talk about hemophilia and bleeding disorders I’ve had bleeds all over my body in every joint and into almost every muscle group. Hip Joint bleeds are the worst and back muscle bleeds hurt like hell.
Flow a lot of flow into surrounding area of the muscle, tissue and depending organs, in and around the injury barring holes or lasterations. I guessed!
reabsorbed by your body.. plus blood is just cells, like any other cells, when they die (due to not being in the right area, or used correctly in their fuction) they breakdown and get used as food for other active cells in that area. Now depending on how big the spill was, it may take awhile for all this to get used up.
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