where are you bleeding to? why is it hurting your body if your body if your body is full of blood already?
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The blood that is in your body is kept in veins and arteries and other things where it only goes where it’s supposed to. “Bleeding” is when those veins and arteries break and the blood starts leaking out. And if you lose *too much* blood then your body can’t get the oxygen and other stuff it needs and that’s a really bad day. “Internal bleeding” is that happening except the blood doesn’t go out of your skin.
Imagine a factory with pipes carrying oil inside it. If the pipes break and the oil starts pouring out inside the factory, now the factory can’t work right and it starts causing problems for the people inside. Same thing with your body – if the pipes break inside, it ain’t gonna work right.
> where are you bleeding to?
towards the surrounding area, this is effectively what bruising is for instance, an internal bleed caused by a rupture of the local blood vessels.
> why is it hurting your body
depending on how major it is, it can range from bruising, to potentially life threatning, the factors that mtter is ” where” and “how badly”: if the bleed is bad enough you effectively start having your blood pressure drop due ot lack of blood actually circulating in the system.
the other issue blood takes space, but not all locations in the body have room to budge, for instance a bleed in the vessles in your brain is dangerous because its taking up space your brain is supposed to(this sort of bleed even has its own name, an Aneurysm and its almost always lethal)
Because the blood is in the wrong place. All your blood should be contained in blood vessels not just pooling up inside your body. If blood vessels are broken inside your body they leak out of the vessels and don’t go back into the circulatory system just as if it was outside the body.
Think of your body as a house, and the blood is water in your plumbing. When you get a water leak, sometimes it’s obvious, but sometimes it’s not until it destroys a wall or ceiling or floods the basement.
In a much more complex and balanced system (like the body) it can disrupt all sorts of things (e. g. flooding your lungs) in *addition* to losing blood, which is bad in and if itself.
My mother is almost 89 and two weeks ago a blood thinner caused internal bleeding. She almost died, initially I was told the condition she was in wasn’t survivable. She required 3 transfusions back to back in the ER ICU. We do have blood all over within our body but within our circulatory system. When you’re bleeding internally something is injured/ruptured/damaged, so blood is leaving the areas it normally flows to and from and instead filling up body cavities. And you typically expell that blood. It’s no longer in your circulatory system. You’re not getting blood to the vital areas you need to either. You may vomit blood, or defecate blood, it’s often called “bleeding out” with good reason. Never have I been so scared in all my life
Your body is not fully filled.
Your body has several “chambers” or “cavities”, where your organs are stored. There are chest cavity (where your lungs and heart are), abdomino-pelvic cavity (where your guts and stuff are), and skull cavity (where your brain are). Those chambers are **not** filled with blood – in fact, they have some free space between the organs.
Internal bleeding is when your blood is leaking inside one of those chambers. It hurts, because it can only happen if your blood vessels are damaged. It is also mortally dangerous: you are still loosing blood in your veins. The fact, that it spills inside your body doesn’t matter – the blood is useless there. Also, with external bleeding you can “plug the hole”, but with internal you cannot – the hole is inside you.
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