How much blood can you lose before you die?
Everyone has a different amount of blood according to their size and weight. So it is not a clear answer to a volume. A baby doesn't have 8 pints and a 400lb 6ft6" person has more than 8 pints But at a loss of 60% of your blood is when you are on your way to the new world.
How do I know if I'm losing too much blood?
Anemia isn't the loss of blood, it's the loss of iron in the blood. While losing blood will also cause you to lose iron, it's kind of like being concerned that the wallpaper you hung in the kitchen is ugly while ignoring the fact that your house is on fire. Unless you are throwing fist-sized clots during your period, you aren't experiencing life-threatening blood loss during menstruation. It really does look a lot worse than it is. If you experience pain with your period that leaves you crying, dizzy, or unconcious for periods of time, you may have a larger problem. Onto the cutting. Unless you're nicking veins and arteries you're not bleeding out. Cutting for emo purposes is generally capillary blood, but it signals a larger problem mentally, obviously. If you get in a car wreck and need a new kidney or heart you won't get one because you've got mental problems. Most cutters are women. I assume you are a woman. I'll look at your avatar to confirm momentarily... but the good news is, women aren't hemophiliacs, so you aren't going to bleed to death. Unless you have some other blood-borne problem resulting in the inability to clot. How long does it take to stop bleeding? Anything over 10 minutes without pressure would probably signify a bleeding disorder. Home remedies... well, I'd drink liquor instead of cutting myself, but I'm a bad person for suggesting that. Oh, and don't get drunk and cut- booze waters down your blood, making clotting more difficult. As for the period, you can get on the pill. It'll regulate your periods and dramatically cut down the bleeding. You can get them at the free clinic without a medical doctor prying into the cuts on your arms. It'll likely just be an irritated nurse and a distracted doctor who was forced into some pro-bono work in his off time. Or you can exercise yourself into non-menstruation. I suggest, for real, a psych consult.
How do doctors know how much blood you have lost?
Short answer: they don’t.Long answer: they look at changes in your vitals to get a rough estimate of blood loss.(Picture from: LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog )So if there is no changes in vitals the patient likely has lost less than 15% of their blood volume. If the patient is tachycardic and hypotensive they likely have lost at least 30% of their blood volume. There are pitfalls, however. A young fit adult will be able to maintain blood pressure much longer than an unfit older person so with the same vitals the young person likely has lost more blood. Some medications can stunt the body’s attempts to maintain blood pressure. For example, a patient on beta blockers may not be able to increase their heart rate in response to blood loss so you will not get the tachycardia you would expect in class two hemorrhage. Because blood pressure is determined by bp = stroke volume x heart rate x total peripheral resistance you may also expect to see earlier drop in blood pressure.Visual estimation is not helpful in trauma setting: although on on the floor and four more* helps you think about potential sites of blood loss it is hard to estimate the amount of blood just by looking at it. Hemoglobin is not particularly useful in the acute setting as you lose both plasma and red blood cells so the concentration of hemoglobin may not change. You may also see dilution of blood due to movement of fluid from tissues to intravascular space or due to IV fluids given to combat shock, both would potentially give much lower hemoglobin counts that you would expect based on the volume of blood lost.In surgery the amount of fluids in the suction container is compared to the amount of blood used for ‘rinsing’. The nurses can also weight the used swabs. Hemoglobin is also usually checked the following morning.*On the floor and four more refer to the potential sites of massive blood loss: floor refers to obvious open wounds and the four more to the places where lot of blood can be lost internally, that is abdomen, pelvis, chest and the long bones (especially femur).
How much blood would I have to lose each day to die from blood loss?
Your red cells are replaced every 120 days or so, and your bone marrow therefore replaces roughly 1% or 45ml per day (let's call it 50ml for easier sums). It can ramp up production way beyond that. Let's say it can double, and that your diet isn't deficient in any thing. You can then lose 100ml/day forever. What about more?I've seen patients walk into clinic (slowly and breathlessly!) on a haemoglobin of 2.5, so let's say that's our cut off 2.5gm/dl is about 15% “normal”. If you lose more than that 100ml or 2%, you drop your Hb by the extra each day, so 150ml a day bleed = 50ml more than is replaced =;would need about 85 days or 12 weeks to get you down to our arbitrary 15%. If you lose 250ml, it would take 28 days. If we get to really large amounts per day, your body hasn't acclimatised - if you hit that 15% on day one - probably even 35% - it'd kill you.
What would happen if someone lost too much blood?
I agree with the fainting. With loss of blood, it cannot circulate to your brain. I know there is a name for it! I just don't feel like going upstairs and getting my medical book from last school year lol. but here's a few sites: http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/conditio... this was interesting, it's how much blood you're able to lose: http://www.manuelsweb.com/blood_loss.htm although I don't know much of how to use it lol I think other people will have better answers! haha
Am I losing too much blood from cutting?
I cut myself about everyday on my hips. I pretty much cut until the blood runs down my legs. Which is around 15 cuts on each hip. After I do this I get dizzy. I get a bad headache. I feel really tired and weak. I have memory lapses where I will do something and then a few minutes later I can't remember if I did it or not. It's strange because I usually have a good memory. My question is am I losing too much blood from cutting? If not why am I having these symptoms?
How much blood should i lose after a miscarriage?
IT IS NORMAL TO BLEED HEAVY BUT IF YOU ARE PASSING LARGE CLOTS (RESEMBLING LIVER) OR YOU ARE CHANGING HEAVY (IN WEIGHT OF BLOOD), SOAKED SANITARY PADS, MORE THAN EVERY HALF HOUR OR more frequent than that, GO TO YOUR DOCTOR. IF YOU CAN DEAL WITH IT AND YOU ARE IN NOT TOO MUCH PAIN THEN IT WILL EVENTUALLY SLOW DOWN, BUT IF YOU START TO FEEL DIZZY OR LIGHT HEADED OR SICK, OR IN ALOT OF CRAMPING PAIN THEN GO TO DOCTOR TOO, if in doubt get checked out, do they have an early pregnancy advisory clinic near you
What happens when you lose too much blood?
As your first respondent mentioned you go into shock. The average person has about 5-6 liters of blood (6 quarts). If you loose 10% of your blood supply about 600 ml or 20 oz that is the beginning of shock. When you donate blood they take about 480 ml or 13 oz. as you loose more and more blood you also loose platelets which are the major component of the clotting mechanism.Eventually you may go into disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) where there is so much clotting that bleeding can't be stopped. Now you are in trouble. Various medical tactics may be used to try and avoid this, but it is a very tricky situation and luck plays a role.Usually if you lose 40% of your blood supply you will be beyond help, especially in the field as opposed to a hospital trauma center. Your body begins to shut down as the capillary system is deprived of blood, and you are unable to rid yourself of your waste carbon dioxide (CO2). This puts the body into a severe acidotic state, and requires intervention. With a arterial blood pH below 7.10 the body begins to malfunction, and can even throw the heart into a intractable ventricular fibrillation which is tantamount to death.
What happens when you loose too much blood?
So i was cutting myself 13 minutes ago, and when i got done i was really light headed, and i felt like throwing up, i had this pain in my stomach, i thought i got flu, but after drinking some water i started feeling better, is it because i lost too much blood? i never drink water, so i thought it was flu or blood lost but flu would be here for days it just came and past away.
If I get my period, will I die if I lose too much blood?
If you are worried that you’ll die from having a normal period—don’t worry.The blood loss is a limited amount, from your uterus, and is triggered by hormonal changes. Google for information on menstruation please!!IF you are bleeding out quarts of blood, soaking towels—then you need to get to the emergency room.If you are soaking a few pads or tampons—that’s normal—-and why those things were invented.Talk to the school nurse, do some on line research—-it seems your mother and family did a great job of keeping this information secret or shameful or disgusting or a religious curse to you—-Menstruation is normal—EVERY WOMEN DOES IT APPROXIMATELY EVERY MONTH—all over the planet, for countless tens of thousands of years!Please see youtube videos, read Wikipedia, etc. about this topic.YES you can get pregnant if you have sex during your period.Get the shots to prevent your getting cervical cancer now. Put it on your calendar—and tell your friends—-boys and girls—they need this shot too—-to prevent getting and spreading A CANCER of the cervix!!!There’s a vaccine. Get it. Thank you.