Bruise, Causes for Bruises, Bruise Easily, Easy Bruising Symptoms, Bruised Care Treatment

Those black and blue bruises got you hiding?  Well, step into the light with some bruise cause and treatment knowledge.

Bruising ordinarily kicks off reddish in color, turns bluish purple, then greenish yellow just before fading away.  Most bruised skin cycles through these color changes within a couple of weeks.

A bruise is typically caused by a hard blow to the surface of your skin, crushing small capillaries.  When they break, blood gets trapped creating often painful and swollen bruising discoloration.

You can bruise your skin, muscle and bone. Bone bruises being the most serious.

If you bruise easily, woman are especially prone, a little bump can leave you with a substantial looking bruise.  And as you age, these factors may contribute to increased bruising:

  • aging capillaries ~ supporting tissue weakens, causing capillary walls to become more fragile
  • thinning skin ~ lost protective fatty layer that helps cushion your blood vessels against injury

Excessive sun exposure can affect your skin in much the same way as well.

Easy bruising is also a symptom.  If you grow bruises for what seems like no apparent reason, something else might be involved in causing your ugly looking marks.

Specific conditions that may be causing your bruise easily symptoms:

Your medications or supplements can be a cause for easy bruising, for instance:

Don’t stop taking a suspected bruise causing drug, have a chat with your doc first.  Also, you should pay your health care doctor a visit if:

  • your bruise is unusually large or painful
  • no history of bruise easily, then suddenly experience bruises
  • easy bruising is accompanied by bleeding elsewhere ~ nose, gums, intestinal tract

Once bruised, not much by way of treatment can be done.  You can reduce the extent of bruising by treating the area immediately with ice and elevation.

You can follow your cold treatment up with warmth and light message to speed blood removal. Heating pads are great for this post bruise development treatment.

If the sight of your bruise bothers you, covering it with makeup is one healthy way to go.

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