10 Symptoms of Hypocalcemia
Symptom #5: Petechiae
Petechiae are small purple or red spots due to a minor bleed from broken capillaries. Petechiae are less than 3 millimeters. Causes of facial petechiae include coughing, vomiting, crying, and breath holding. Petechiae on the body can be seen in vitamin K deficiency, vitamin C deficiency, leukemia, clotting factor deficiencies, thrombocytopenia, hypocalcemia, and more.
Petechiae is one of the types of bleeding into skin, characterized by size. The other two are purpura and ecchymosis. In hypocalcemia, the petechiae can become confluent in dependent parts of the body to become purpura.
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