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Low Blood Platelets are a concern for many people. Low blood platelets can lead to bruising, bleeding, headaches, fatigue, petechiae (a small (1-2mm) red or purple spot on the body, caused by a minor hemorrhage) and other low blood platelet symptoms.
Low Blood Platelets are sometimes the result of I.T.P.
I.T.P. or Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, also known as Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, is classified as an autoimmune disease.
In an autoimmune disease the body mounts an attack toward one or more otherwise normal organ systems. In I.T.P., platelets are the target.
They are marked as foreign by the immune system and eliminated in the spleen, or sometimes the liver. This leads to low blood platelets.
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