Okay, I seem to have something rather unique, in my experience.
If I get a wound which is anything thicker than a slim cut, it rapidly fills with a clear liquid which very quickly hardens into a clear (with a yellow tint) ‘plaque’; Sometimes if enough comes out and it leaks out of the wound, it hardens to almost look crystalline. I’ve asked my friends if they get the same thing. Noone else I know seems to have this. Since it leaks and set very fast, I dont tend to get scabs, either. I never have. When I was younger I thought this was totally normal, but as I learned more I realised that yeah, when people get injured and bleed, they usually get scabs.
So what is this stuff? is it plasma that hardens? If so, how does it separate from the rest of my blood cells? Is it pus? then why isnt it white, and how does it harden so fast and so effectively? These are the only two theories I’ve come up with, and neither seems to make much sense at all.
I’d ask a doctor, but… well… I hate visiting the doctor. 
So, any ideas?
a purely WAG – from my knowlage it would sound like it is plasma, which would still contain the platelets that are used to from clots (with some other factors, which I can go into if you’d like)
I thought of that, but why would plasma leak so quickly while my red blood cells leak so slowly? They should leak at the same rate, which would produce a scab, as far as I know… instead I end up with a translucent plug that has the consistency of plaque. It’s very, very smooth and slick when it’s hardened.
RBC’s actually do not participate in the collagulation process, they just happen to be there when it happens. RBC’s are snigifiantly larger than plateletes (only WBC’s are larger than the RBC’s) so it would be conciveable that the plasma would be able to leak out with the platelets w/o any RBC’s
ponders… True enough… Okay, this is the best theory I’ve heard about this. It makes quite a bit of sense… my latest wound was quite deep, and only at the very bottom of it (it was a triangluar prism shaped gash, with the corner of the triangle deep in my flesh) did it actually bleed red a little bit.
Okay. Mostly satisfied with this now.
Thanks!
For those intersted in the formation of a clot
http://jimswan.com/anatomy/blood_notes.htm
This is a page of notes from the UNM anatomy homepage. The notes on clotting are at the bottom of the page
That is weird…sounds like your capillaries are too small to let the RBCs out, but big enough for the plasma and platelets, but that doesn’t make sense because if they were that small they wouldn’t be serving their purpose…maybe you have a beneficial mutation and your blood vessels tighten up more than normal when broken.
I HAVE had similar things happen myself, but not very often, and usually on rather shallow scratches.
RBC’s are not supposed to leave the vascular space during circulation. Their primary function is to transport oxygen to the tissues, and return of a much lesser quantity of carbon dioxide to the lungs for exhalation.
The best way to stay in vascular space is to be too big to slip through the porous walls of capillaries.
You’re not unusual. It happens to me too. I figured it happens to everyone else. It actually happens more with small cuts (and popped zits) as the blood seems to stop flowing and only the plasma/platelet fluid comes out. Then it’s time for Neosporin!
the capalliary beds have pre and post “valves” that can close in an effort to not allow blood into that capalliary bed. I would imigian that a traumatic event to that capalliary bed would result in possible leakage of those valves. The leakage may be large enough to allow plasma and platelets through, but not the larger RBC that can normally pass in a single file line through capalliary bed.
So I have some kind of an anti-bleeding reflex? Sweet…
This dosnt happen to me when I get small cuts, FTR. Small ones tend to scab more (though since they’re small cuts, the scabs are too thin to really be noticed). It happens when I get big ones.
Like, a few days ago I got my thumb caught in the sharpener at work, which of course is a wheel that goes really fast. It ground out a section of my thumb that was something like 2-3 millimeters deep and maybe 4 mm across. It was filled with this stuff and hardened up in about 15 minutes.
But you’re right about the zits. Happens EVERY time, and the hard yellow dot is nice and noticable. Ergh.
I also rather like not being the only one. NOONE I know has this.
Sounds like lymph fluid to me. Similar to plasma, but no RBC. It forms a yellow crust, not really a typical scab, when it dries.
“Filtration forces water and dissolved substances from the capillaries into the interstitial fluid. Not all of this water is returned to the blood by osmosis, and excess fluid is picked up by lymph capillaries to become lymph. From lymph capillaries fluid flows into lymph veins (lymphatic vessels) which virtually parallel the circulatory veins and are structurally very similar to them, including the presence of semilunar valves.” – Per UNM A&P
Platelets are not dissolved in the blood, therefor they should not leave vascular system. How would the lymph then have platelets in it for collagulation to occur, or does the lymph clot through a different process that I cannot find in my A&P book, or the website?
I don’t know if lymph has platelets, but it has white blood cells, so it could. Notice I said it dries , which isn’t the same as clotting.
white blood cells go through a process of agglutination – I can see how that would form a “Clot”
Geez, with all this serious medical analysis going on, no one has given the most obvious answer: Mnementh is an alien.
Have you considered the possibility that this is not plasma but puss?
Of course, this would then suggest that you have some infection or other roughly everywhere you get a cut with clear liquid.
I’m not an alien.
I’m a superhuman.
And since pus is comprised (As far as I know), of dead white blood cells, wouldnt it be white? Like the pus that happens everywhere else? Whiteheads, for example? I’m pretty sure I dont get infected every time I get a cut, especially since they heal fast and even without ill effect at all.
Yeah, Pus would be dead white cells and what they killed. I’m sticking with my plasma idea.