Can anyone help me answer this questian? its really imrortant. involving a death.

Why would a person bleed out there eyes, nose, mouth, and ears after death? :frowning:

Reported for forum change.

That would depend on how they died.

A previous thread resulting from a similar question.

Since the OP really doesn’t care about “this message board,” but rather is asking a General Question, moved to GQ from ATMB.

samclem, Moderator

But if lizziepooh’s standing over a body that’s bleeding out, we’ve been no help…

IIRC the ebola virus can cause bleeding from various orifices.

The simplest explanation is that they suffered either a single severe head injury, or multiple small injuries.

All those orifices are connected internally, so if you do enough damage to the skull you can get blood flowing into and out of all of them.

Of course simply getting a beating can produce the same result without fracturing the skull. If you take a look at a picture of a boxer after a fight, they will almost certainly be bleeding from all those places. Bleeding from the ear canal is less common, but it does happen. Bleeding from the external ears is expected; there’s a reason boxers develop cauliflower ears.

Massive pressurisation/decompression will also produce those symptoms, as the pressure changes rupture the eardrums and all the delicate vessels in the lungs and nose. Some comon causes of pressurisation/depressurisation: diving too deep, being placed into a vacuum chamber, being spun on a centrifuge, being caught in an explosion, being caught in the collapse of a pressure vessels such as a gas cylinder or over-inflated tire. All those things would cause the victim to bleed from all the orifice sin the head.

Chemical causes such as anticoagulants or Ebola are less likely. While these things commonly cause bleeding from the eyes and nose, the capillaries in the external ear aren’t particularly fragile or close to the surface, so bleeding form the ear isn’t anymore common than bleeding from the general body surface. It could happen, but you’d expect that there would also be bleeding from, for example, the fingers or the neck.