Collagen is a protein that is part of cartilage, bone, and other tissues in animals and humans. People use collagen from chickens for medicine. Chicken collagen is used to treat joint pain associated with many types of arthritis and surgery, as well as back pain, neck pain, and pain following injury.
Hemophilia is diagnosed with blood tests to determine if clotting factors are missing or at low levels, and which ones are causing the problem. If you have a family history of hemophilia, it is important that your doctors know the clotting factor your relatives are missing. You will probably be missing the same one.
The most common type of hemophilia is called hemophilia A. This means the person does not have enough clotting factor VIII (factor eight). A less common type is hemophilia B. This person does not have enough clotting factor IX (factor nine). The result is the same for people with hemophilia A and B: they both bleed for a longer time than normal.