Leukemia Bruises On Child S Legs
For children bruises may start to appear on the face buttocks ears chest and head.
Leukemia bruises on child s legs. Feeling unusually tired or weak fever or chills unexplained weight loss nighttime sweating frequent nosebleeds occasional rashes and bruises on the skin. The child may also bruise easily. They occur in unusual places in cases of leukaemia quite often bruises will appear in places that you wouldn t normally expect especially. Anemia and related symptoms such.
A child with this type of cancer will have a lack of platelets that help to prevent. The blood s ability to clot depends on healthy blood. Leukemia can disrupt the body s production of platelets which normally form blood clots to stop bleeding. People with leukemia are more susceptible to bruising even from small knocks.
These bruises are usually flat and smaller than the size of a quarter. Without enough platelets in the blood the body cannot prevent blood vessels from bleeding under the skin upon injury. You may experience some of the following symptoms of leukemia. The back legs and hands.
When platelets become low patients often bleed into. Normal bruising is usually found on a child s shins because they often bump their lower legs against things as they walk or run. Some of the more common symptoms of leukemia include extreme feelings of fatigue and weakness frequent and unexpected nosebleeds sudden and unexplainable weight loss and the appearance of rashes and bruises on the skin in some cases all over the body. I noticed some unexplained bruises on my right hand and lower limbs.
In the case of children the bruises appear on the face buttocks ears chest and head. Younger children often get bruises on their foreheads from bumping their heads and falling too. That can set the stage for bruising. They may have small red spots on the skin or petechiae which occur due to tiny blood vessels that have bled.
Many types of leukemia produce no obvious symptoms in the early stages. Eventually symptoms may include any of the following.