To diagnose any problems, doctors primarily send patients to take general tests: blood and urine. It is these studies that help to identify possible diseases and in most cases to understand the cause of even a slight deterioration in well-being.
If you notice that you have bruises easily (you can not even remember if you hit something), you often have nosebleeds and even minor injuries last for a long time, then, most likely, your average platelet count is lowered. Of course, to confirm this, it is necessary to donate blood for a general analysis.
Normal in a healthy person from 180 to 320x10 9 cells of platelets in one liter. This amount allows you to clog the blood vessels in time, thus preventing bleeding. In general, platelets are non-nuclear cells that form in the bone marrow, but they contain components responsible for clotting of blood. It is timely release of them in the necessary amount allows you to stop bleeding by forming a thrombus.
The change in their number to either side indicates serious problems. So, if the platelets are lowered, the causes should be looked for carefully. This can be due to congenital hemophilia, systemic lupus erythematosus, changes in thyroid hormone levels, aplastic anemia, Evans syndrome, DIC syndrome, hemolytic problems in newborns, as a result of thrombosis of renal veins and even because of such diseases as Toxoplasmosis, malaria, rickettsiosis and other viral and bacterial infections. If you change their number, you need to listen to the recommendations of the doctor, so you can not even lower the platelets. A critical reduction in their number may even be the cause of death: as a result of the prolongation of the wound-tightening time, a person can die because of severe blood loss, and he may die because of the inadvertently uncovered sudden internal bleeding.
But the opposite is no less terrible. Elevated levels of platelets also indicate serious problems: the cause may be inflammatory processes, anemia, erythremia and even malignant tumors. It also happens because of the removal of the spleen, after various surgical interventions and even due to physical overwork. In any case, it is worth asking how to reduce platelets, because their high content often causes death. Strokes, heart attacks and vascular thrombosis occur precisely because of too many of these cells in the blood.
In order to reduce platelets, first you should stop using alcoholic beverages, because because of them the blood viscosity increases . In addition, you will have to drink drugs that in certain dosages contain aspirin. Just do not self-medicate, consult with a therapist or cardiologist, the doctor will help you choose the remedy that should fit in your case.
Often the need to reduce platelets occurs in the elderly. Their number increases due to acquired chronic diseases or an incorrect lifestyle. If you still have a normal number of these denuclearized cells, but you are afraid that the blood will become more viscous and dense, then for the prevention you can drink acidic fruit drinks - this is one recognized effective folk methods.