General Medical Question - Urgent - um! i cut into a white and a bit of red underneath the white...

[isabella1411]

its bleeding but not much and ...its scaring me that its not bleeding alot....

wtf is going on???????

[lozza]

it depends but it may have been what you cut into...
my advice is to pm a first aid advisor (easiest way to get the right info) or even better... get it checked out...

hope your ok

[makedamnsure]

I hope you PM'd one of the first aiders. If not how is it now?

[EpicFailGirl]

what do you mean, a white?

[ebec11]

I find that infected wounds bleed less then non-infected ones, and that might explain the whiteness (that's what happens to me for any infections)
I would definitely put some neosporin or polysporin on it and it might just go away by itself.

[akita]

The deeper you cut the less it will bleed. I agree about getting it checked out though.

[Jetforce]

If you need any assistance, i'll suggest you PM either Bitter_angel or Animad. They are the first aid advisors who may assist you with things.

[Animad]

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Originally Posted by mystery of life

The deeper you cut the less it will bleed. I agree about getting it checked out though.

Hmmm, that's not true at all really. Everyone has blood vessels in the skin, near the top, and that is what bleeds when there's only a tiny scratch, say even if you fall over and get a scrape to your knee and it may bleed a bit. The same as if you cut, these will bleed but they will bleed whether or not the but is deep or shallow but just goes into these as both of these cut through the same sort of vessels.

The thing with deeper cuts is that they then have chance to hit vessels deeper down than ones which are only really shallow and so therefore the deeper ones tend to be the ones that bleed the most and these vessels deeper can only be small ones but there is always the risk, depending on the depth of them being larger ones. The only thing that can make a difference is the position and potentially the direction that you cut and then you'll hit vessels that are at different depths and have different amounts of blood going through so it may be that you've only cut shallowed in areas that naturally bleed more but it definately wouldn't make sense, and doesn't work, that shallow cuts bleed less than deeper ones.


Right, with regards to the cut, have you got it checked out or looked after it in any way? If you have what have you done what's happened so far? How does it seem now? It's hard to go just by colours really, there are potentials I'm thinking of BUT they don't quite fit as there's usually a layer between, it may be that you've just cut just shallow of that layer or through it. We can't really say on here what it may or may not be but with further descriptions and/or a picture (really if you have one taken at the time you cut as I know it's a couple of days ago now then that would be better) but that's only needed if you didn't get help. With regards to worrying about it not bleeding as much, I wouldn't worry to much just about that fact, it may be that you've missed quite a lot of the vessels in skin.