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Have Small Red Dots On Elbow. Looks Like Broken Blood Vessels. Any Ideas?
Hello,
Thanks for the query and photographs.
These grouped dotted lesions look like petechiae, that is minute bleed in skin. It is at the site of trauma (elbow) and hence can be due to low platelet.
Please get your platelet levels checked.
Feel free to ask any further queries.
Thank you.
Thanks for the query and photographs.
These grouped dotted lesions look like petechiae, that is minute bleed in skin. It is at the site of trauma (elbow) and hence can be due to low platelet.
Please get your platelet levels checked.
Feel free to ask any further queries.
Thank you.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vaishalee Punj
What can cause low platelets?
Hello.
Thanks for the follow up.
Low platelet can be caused by any of the following causes.
1. Mild viral infection, like sore throat fever etc, can cause low platelet.
2. Sometimes the viral infections are very trivial and go off with just mild uneasiness, but platelet is destroyed to a greater level.
3. The next most important cause is intake of medication like painkiller can cause low platelet.
4. Malignancy or disorders of vessel can also cause platelet deficiency and present as bleed in skin. However, in these conditions there will be other symptoms also like high fever joint pains etc.
If there are no associated symptoms, you do not need to worry. Body can get back the platelet levels just in a month. I am asking you to get the levels checked, just to ascertain the diagnosis.
Wishing you good health.
Thank you
Thanks for the follow up.
Low platelet can be caused by any of the following causes.
1. Mild viral infection, like sore throat fever etc, can cause low platelet.
2. Sometimes the viral infections are very trivial and go off with just mild uneasiness, but platelet is destroyed to a greater level.
3. The next most important cause is intake of medication like painkiller can cause low platelet.
4. Malignancy or disorders of vessel can also cause platelet deficiency and present as bleed in skin. However, in these conditions there will be other symptoms also like high fever joint pains etc.
If there are no associated symptoms, you do not need to worry. Body can get back the platelet levels just in a month. I am asking you to get the levels checked, just to ascertain the diagnosis.
Wishing you good health.
Thank you
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Shanthi.E
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