Question

A2 year old boy was brought to the emergency department by his mother for oozing blood from his mouth following a fall neatly 6 hours ago. His mother related that he tended to bleed for prolonged periods from his immunization sites, but there was no history of bruising or hematomas The patient was on antibiotics for a recent car infection. There was no known family history of a bleeding disorder

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Answer:

He may have some form of internal bleeding following the fall and the fact that he sometimes has prolonged bleeding could indicate hemophilia or some other blood clotting disorder. Also, since the patient was recently on antibiotics this could be a factor of the bleeding as it's possible he could have developed thrombocytopenia which is causing the excessive bleeding.