Vitamin K cream

[Chris S]

I've had bruising under my eye since I came off my bike 4 months ago. Various online sources recommend applying Vitamin K cream to the affected area.

From what I remember from O' Level biology your liver uses Vitamin K to help produce the proteins that are used for blood-clotting.

How can applying Vitamin K cream directly to an area reduce bruising there?

 

[Dave7]

Cant answer that but.....good quality Lavender oil, a miracle cure.

 

[Cycleops]

Nothing can dramatically reduce bruising and don't think I'm taking the p*** but your own urine might be worth a try. My wife swears by it and I've used it for all sorts of skin ailments and it works amazingly well.

 

[roadrash]

There you have it, all you have to do is p!ss in your own eye

 

[Globalti]

Get Mrs Chris S to punch you in the other eye so that you look like Uncle Fester?

 

[Dave7]

There you have it, all you have to do is p!ss in your own eye

if that doesn't work he could ask Mrs Cycleops to do it for him

 

[ColinJ]

I've had bruising under my eye since I came off my bike 4 months ago. Various online sources recommend applying Vitamin K cream to the affected area.

From what I remember from O' Level biology your liver uses Vitamin K to help produce the proteins that are used for blood-clotting.

How can applying Vitamin K cream directly to an area reduce bruising there?

I'm quite impressed that you covered vitamin K in O-level Biology! Most people don't seem to have a clue about it. (It is important that I learned the basics of it because I was put on warfarin for clotting problems and that works by being a vitamin K antagonist.)

If the cream does work, I assume that it is by helping the formation of micro-clots in the superficial blood vessels in the affected area? It would make sense since a bruise is basically caused by blood leaking from damaged capillaries into tissue under the skin.

 

[ColinJ]

Hmm, there might be something to it - research paper.

 

[pawl]

There you have it, all you have to do is p!ss in your own eye

Or get someone else to do it.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Sweet corn is high in vitamin K. Could you insert a couple of grains under your eyelid?

 

[FishFright]

There you have it, all you have to do is p!ss in your own eye

Now that's a sport for younger men lol

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Or get someone else to do it.

I believe Trump can recommend someone.

 

[MrPie]

I worry about you lot

 

[Chris S]

I'm quite impressed that you covered vitamin K in O-level Biology! Most people don't seem to have a clue about it. (It is important that I learned the basics of it because I was put on warfarin for clotting problems and that works by being a vitamin K antagonist.)

If the cream does work, I assume that it is by helping the formation of micro-clots in the superficial blood vessels in the affected area? It would make sense since a bruise is basically caused by blood leaking from damaged capillaries into tissue under the skin.

I'd have thought the vitamin K would have had to make its way back to the liver where the blood-clotting proteins are synthesized and that these would then have to make their way back to the affected area. It didn't make sense.

However, vitamin K cream facilitating blood clots locally would.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'd try massaging the affected area. I used to get bruising when i squeezed blackheads out my pours. I sometimes squeezed too hard which resulted in bruising. I'd rub the area for about 5 minutes every now and then. Honestly,it did seem to remove the unwanted blood cells. If that doesn't work try a bit of same skin tone make-up. They make lipstick type ones to cover up spots and ...small bruises etc.