Was wondering if excessive bruising is caused by a something lacking in your diet. And is there a supplement that would help?
thx,
c.
How are you getting these bruisings? Bumping into tables at work? bruising on your hands when you lift? Bruised shins from Karate practice? Wake up with random bruises frequently?
Try a multi with iron in it. Zinc helps with healing. Bromelain is suppose to help a lot with injury healing. I would just stick with some good vitamins unless your in a contact sport then if you get banged up a lot bromelain might be something worth looking into.
If its a lot of random bruising then see your dr that sounds like something sever.
Being a female check your iron levels. Being health minded check your sodium intake. Both could lead to very thin blood making bruising pretty darn easy
Phill
thanks for tips.
Most of my bruises I deserve but half just appear for no stinkin reason and they always get worse before they fade away and take at least 2 weeks. Just wanted to make sure I don’t have some weird deadly disease.
I think I’ll just add more iron to start. Can’t possibly add more sodium. I put salt on everything except my oats.
c.
c.
Don’t add iron to your diet if you haven’t been tested. The best test to do is a ferritin test its a deeper testing than just CBC. I have always been told bruising is do to lack of Vitamin C. Being that it is water soluable you can take more. I take 3000 mg daily, spread out thru day. You can take as much as you need up to bowel tolerance.(diarhea)
fitnesslady
[quote]c. wrote:
Was wondering if excessive bruising is caused by a something lacking in your diet. And is there a supplement that would help?
thx,
c.[/quote]
Bioflavenoids at 500mgs a day will work for you. Any health food store will have them,inexpensive.
Tell people to stop hitting you.
Thanks fitnesslady and magicsomthing. I’ll add vitamin C first then before extra iron. probably has been low. Never heard of bioflavenoids.
[quote]Tell people to stop hitting you.
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No one’s stupid enough to hit me. Its from my god dang tire, a dirtbike, a couple trees, a new PL belt and probably me just being a spaz. FYI
c.
what sort of supplements/ medicines are you currently taking, if any?
I would make sure you are getting enough fats. I used to bruise like crazy but since I’ve increased my fats to at LEAST 50g. per day my bruises dissappear in no time…
[quote]consumer wrote:
what sort of supplements/ medicines are you currently taking, if any? [/quote]
multi vitamin sometimes
creatine pure kind
Surge
does Spike count?
and vitamin c starting today.
that’s it.
[quote]sarah1 wrote:
I would make sure you are getting enough fats. I used to bruise like crazy but since I’ve increased my fats to at LEAST 50g. per day my bruises dissappear in no time…
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My fats are pretty good. Haven’t tracked food in a while but I know I get those in the right amounts. I should check though.
Thanks for all the advice.
c.
Vitamin C. Women tend to bruise easier than men due to having more copper, a vitamin C antagonist. Women have more copper because estrogen increases it’s uptake. Vitamin C and copper are both needed for collagen synthesis among other things.
The more estrogen/copper you have the higher need of vitamin C. I’d recommend slowly increasing your vitamin C until bruising ceases. Some need up to 10 grams a day but 1 gram is usually enough.
Also, check your multi-vitamin/mineral if you are taking one. Mostly likely you are getting additional copper that you most likely do not need.
If your having signifigant bruising appear then see your Dr if you have health insurance. I would say seeing 1-3 major brusies a week consistantly out of no where is very unusual.
[quote]HunterKiller wrote:
If your having signifigant bruising appear then see your Dr if you have health insurance. I would say seeing 1-3 major brusies a week consistantly out of no where is very unusual. [/quote]
great. now you just freaked me out.
Thanks though.
c.