About bleeding disorders

Our body has different organs - lungs, liver, stomach, kidneys, .. -  We think of an ‘organ’ as a solid piece of our body. Although blood is in fluid estate, it is considered as an organ. Blood combines a multitude of biochemical reactions for example by transporting oxygen or sugars. It can generate proteins. As it is a fluid, it is captured in a 'containing system': blood vessels. This containing system is spread all over our body and can vary from large (vein) to very thin (capillaries).

When a blood vessel -large or thin- leaks, we call it a bleed. The consequences of such a leak is that we lose blood and it diminishes the transport of vital material. Also, when an internal bleed occurs, it creates a pressure, so that transport to surrounding elements in the body stops, it suffocates tissue and at the long end tissue might  break down or causes a necrosing effect. A bleed has different consequences depending the severity or the place where the leisure of the blood vessel system occurs.

It is known that our blood vessel system is quite fragile and isn't necessarily a tight system. But ... In the generations of mutations to humankind, our body has build up a self curing system when a leak occurs: clotting. Clotting is a biochemical reaction of proteins that fabricates a sort of plug into the leisure of the blood vessel. When this self curing system is unbalanced by lack or by exuberance of proteins or other elements of that biochemical reaction, we call it a bleeding or clotting disorder. The balance can lean to both sides: no clotting or too much clotting. And the disturbing of that balance is due to different causes. Each different cause calls for a specific diagnose.