What is purpura? Purpura pictures and what does it look like? In fact, it is the general term for the color change of the skin and mucous membranes after bleeding, the clinical features are bleeding spots, petechiae and purpura. Below is a picture of purpura, in addition to the causes of its development. Purpura pictures The causes of purpura hemorrhage can be categorized into two groups: (1) Vascular system lesions Purpura is formed due to lesions in the blood vessels themselves, such as damage to the vessel wall or increased permeability or brittleness of the vessel wall, which causes leakage of erythrocytes from the blood. Vascular injury can be caused by bacterial toxins, chemical drugs, vitamin deficiencies, and so on. Such as simple purpura, allergic purpura, increased intravascular pressure purpura and so on. (2) Hematologic lesions Bleeding caused by disorders of the blood clotting function of the blood system. Such as thrombocytopenic purpura, hemophilia, fibrinogen reduction purpura, hepatic diseases caused by plasminogen reduction purpura, the application of too much anticoagulant drugs caused by purpura. All of these lesions do not only cause bleeding in the skin, but also in other tissues and internal organs. If you have purpura, you should not just think of it as bleeding, but you should carefully carry out the examination of all systems and organs to exclude hematologic diseases. There are also some special types of purpura, such as rheumatic purpura, thrombotic purpura, etc., all need to be systematically examined to find out the cause and symptoms. Therefore, purpura should not be taken lightly. The symptoms of purpura are usually minor spontaneous petechiae or ecchymosis, which mainly occurs in the lower limbs, but can occasionally occur in the upper limbs, but rarely in the trunk. The petechiae or ecchymoses of purpura are usually of different sizes and unevenly distributed, usually not higher than the surface, and do not discolor or become painful when pressed. Patients often have slight localized pain before the appearance of petechiae, but in the next morning when dressing can be conscious of the skin of the leg pain, when examined can be found petechiae. Purpura tends to recur, and in women it may worsen during menstruation. If you want to know more about the symptoms of purpura, or to determine whether you are suffering from purpura, you can consult an online expert>> online expert<< What to do if you have purpura After suffering from purpura, first of all, we should pay attention to the protection of life, pay attention to diet, and try to avoid eating spicy food, if the patient has a recurring bleeding, then we have to adjust the life and work to form a good living habits to avoid too much. The fact is that it is not a good idea to have a good time, but it is a good idea to have a good time. Purpura can seriously jeopardize people's physical and mental health, so patients should actively diagnose and treat, treatment should be timely to the regular hospital, do not self-medication. If you want to know more about the treatment of purpura, you can consult an online expert. >>Online experts<<