I own a business in the medical field as a medical documentation specialist. Medical mysteries are intriguing to me :)
A case study: A 28-year-old male is in the hospital with idiopathic thrombocytopenia. I don’t know what prompted the visit to the ER, but they found that he had a platelet count of 0. This is very unusual in an otherwise healthy person of that age.
He feels fine but has some easy bruising. The doctors are still trying to figure out the underlying cause. HIV and hepatitis have been ruled out.
I wondered briefly if COVID or COVID vaccine could have an impact on this, but he never had COVID (to his knowledge as some people had it and didn’t exhibit any symptoms) and never had the vaccine. He did drink out of a spicket while at a rally the day before his ER visit — perhaps there was something in the water. Or something entered through a cut that happened in the past.
It’s a big mystery.
Platelets are clotting cells. The first thing you do when you cut yourself is cover it and press hard on the cut to stop the bleeding. Platelets are necessary to ‘stop the bleeding’.
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are small, colorless cell fragments in the blood that help form clots to stop or slow bleeding and aid in wound healing. When a blood vessel is damaged, platelets bind together at the site of the injury, causing a blood clot. source: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/platelet-information.html
I’m certainly interested in the outcome! This patient is still currently in the ICU but feels fine to date. This would probably drive an active young person a little crazy!
Thank you for reading!
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