Internal bleeding: symptoms and types

Internal bleeding is the outpouring of blood, caused by damage to the venous or arterial vessels, in the cavity of the internal organs of man. The close attention that physicians pay to this issue is due primarily to the fact that this type of bleeding is difficult to diagnose. The most common causes of internal bleeding are chest injuries, malignant tumors, complications typical of a variety of GI and female genital diseases.

Internal bleeding: symptoms of a general nature

There are a number of early signs characteristic of any internal bleeding, regardless of its source:

Pallor of the skin;

• cold sweat;

• general malaise;

• dizziness;

• a feeling of darkness in the eyes;

• Anemia;

• hypotension.

Internal bleeding of the stomach: symptoms

The cause of hemorrhage in the stomach and esophagus may be varicose veins caused by portal hypertension, and other diseases, such as, for example, ulcerative colitis, erosive gastritis or Crohn's disease. However, the most common cause of this type of bleeding is a stomach or duodenal ulcer. By the way, the following manifestations are also typical for patients who are suspected of internal bleeding of the intestine. The symptoms of these two types of bleeding are similar, so doctors are not always able to immediately determine the location of the lesion. Can be:

• vomiting of blood;

• tarry stools;

• blood in the feces.

Internal bleeding: symptoms of pulmonary injury

Tuberculosis of the lungs, stenosis of the mitral valve, abscesses, infarction and inflammation of the lung, malignant formations in the respiratory system - all these diseases can cause pulmonary hemorrhage, the main sign of which is blood in the sputum. It can be as a barely noticeable red or pink veins, and expectoration by blood "full mouth." In addition, the patient's breathing becomes difficult, he feels pain in his chest. There are also changes in the chest X-ray: the mediastinum is shifted towards the healthy lung.

Internal bleeding: symptoms typical of "female" diseases

The first signs of internal bleeding in women are:

• Feeling of tension and compression in the pelvis;
• Spotting from the anus ;
• Bloating;
• A pre-unconscious condition.
• Frequent threadlike pulse;
• cold sweat.

Internal bleeding: hemoarthritis symptoms

Hemoarthrosis is the accumulation of a certain amount of blood in the cavity of any joint. Most often, the cause of this condition is trauma, less often - hemophilia. In such bleeding, common symptoms, unlike local ones, are less pronounced. There are three clinical degrees of this lesion:

• for hemoarthrosis of the first degree, weak pain and some "flattening" of the joint are characteristic, and, nevertheless, its mobility is not limited in any way;

• hemoarthrosis of the second degree differs by a more pronounced pain syndrome, which increases with exercise, the smoothness of the joint is more noticeable;

• The third degree of hemoarthrosis implies a rather large (up to 100 milliliters) blood content, acute pain syndrome.