The severity of the symptoms, which may include muscle pains, vomiting and confusion, depends on the extent of muscle damage and whether kidney failure develops. The muscle damage may be caused by physical factors, medications, drug abuse, and infections.
Also known as a subconjunctival hemorrhage, a broken blood vessel on the front of the eye is typically a harmless condition (although see below) that clears up within one to three weeks. Subconjunctival is the term used to describe the space located just beneath the conjunctiva (the clear surface of your eye).
Whole blood is only useful to patients for 42 days. After that, it âexpiresâ and must be destroyed. Platelets (a particular blood cell that is collected in concentrated doses during apheresis donations) have a âshelf lifeâ of only five days. This is why there is a constant need for blood and donors.