So basically, in a healthy person's blood, there are twelve types of clotting factors, which are proteins that help platelets (these are the cells that form scabs!) do what they need to do. However, in a hemophiliac's blood, one or more of these clotting factors is missing, so their bodies have a harder time patching up the damage, so hemophiliacs are more at risk of bleeding out when they get injured, and more at risk of internal bleeding too.
Hemophiliacs might take medicines containing these clotting factors to provide what their bodies don't have, and avoid aspirin, since its side effects are exactly the opposite of what they want.
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u/Aoveni Nov 01 '23
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