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 processed into components (red cells, platelets, plasma). After processing, the red cells can be stored for forty-two days. Plasma can be frozen and stored for up to twelve months and platelets (from whole blood or by apheresis) expire after five days.