Blood transfers the nutrients and oxygen to the cells and takes carbon dioxide, waste and toxins from these cells to get rid of them outside the body. It regulates the temperature of the body through its distribution to different organs of the body. Blood also distributes enzymes after production to specialized organs of capacity To carry out demolitions and construction, all through its permeability within veins, arteries and capillaries.
Blood consists of blood plasma, which is a liquid containing red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
Definition of blood viscosity
The force in which the blood engages in the walls of arteries, veins and capillaries as they travel within it to perform its function, and the cohesion and cohesion of molecules together. Blood viscosity generally depends on the proportion of proteins in the blood plasma. If the proportion of proteins exceeds the permissible level, the person is infected with blood viscosity syndrome, and the high red blood cells increase the viscosity of the blood.
The normal blood viscosity in men is 4.7 and for women 4.3. Blood viscosity syndrome may affect all age groups of both sexes, but males are more likely to be infected than females.
Symptoms of high viscosity of blood
- Headaches.
- Dizziness and fainting.
- Skin color changes to redness with itching.
- Feeling general fatigue, lethargy, and inability to fulfill simple daily tasks.
- The incidence of vision confusion and problems.
- Partial or total hearing loss.
- In advanced cases, seizures may occur.
Causes of blood viscosity syndrome
- Heart injury to some congenital problems.
- Great psychological and physical stress.
- Blood temperature; the relationship is inverse between temperature and blood viscosity, the higher the temperature the lower the viscosity of blood, and vice versa the more the temperature decreased the viscosity of blood.
- Anemia.
- Kidney disease.
- Some types of drugs such as: Ibo hormone.
- Lack of oxygen concentration for a particular cause such as highlands.
- Genetic factor.
- Low body fluids cause dehydration and decreased plasma intake.
- Chronic respiratory disease.
- Smoking.
Because of serious complications such as high blood pressure, excessive weight loss, leukemia, stomach ulcer, etc., excess blood viscosity can be treated by exchange of blood plasma, thus eliminating Excess proteins cause it, and can be used to prevent blood clotting to prevent clotting.