What’s at Stake?

When your skin is cut, pierced or scraped, blood vessels in the area are damaged or opened. This causes you to bleed. Bleeding is the body’s response to damage to skin, bone or internal organs. Sometimes if the skin damage is only minimal there will not be any bleeding, but these injuries are often very painful. For the skin damage, bleeding helps to clean out a wound and blood starts to clot which closes the skin again. However, sometimes the damage to the blood vessels in the skin, or other body part, is so large, there may be excessive […]