Hickey or love bit: Love Bite (Hickey) is a small mark, but love is hidden in it. It is not just a mark lying on the body, but is also remembered of the moment when emotions move forward with words. Although it is common in love to give hiccia to your partner, but do you know love byte can affect your health too? Yes, in addition to problems like blood clot, skin blue and swelling, you may have to face some serious problems and these problems include stroke. Everyone should know about the risks from love byte or hiccian. So let’s know about this …
What is love byte (hickey) hickey?
Hickey, also known as Love Bite, has a dark red or purple scar on your skin, which can be rapidly due to the skin sucking or cutting (intense suction) for 20 or 30 seconds. If you understand in easy words, the scar remains after Hikki, it is due to the freezing of blood. Actually, when your partner sucks or bites your skin rapidly, small blood vasils are broken under the surface due to pressure. These broken blood vesels leave small spots of blood called pattichia which come to the surface and leave red, blue or purple marks. These names can be given to Hickey in medical language,
- Acchimosis
- Erythema
- Hematoma
- Purpura
- Petichia
But these blood vesels do not break only during hickey, but when you collide with something, they break and due to this, there is pain or there are blue or red marks on the skin.
There is also a note to note that in some medical condoms, when someone is given blood thinning drugs like aspirin or other anticoagulants, then they get hurt due to a slight pressure on the skin and can make marks like Hicky.
Initially Hickey looks like a scratch. Gradually, as soon as the blood comes under the surface of the skin with blood vesels, they first look red and then become purple. Then gradually the color is light yellow and then ends 10-12 days later.
These 3 problems can also be caused by hickey
Dr. Nitin Kumar N, a neurologist and senior consultant of the touch hospital in Bangalore, told Aajtak.in, “When couples foreflets, during whom the neck is on the neck, due to strong pressure, red-blue marks are formed, it is called Hikki. As you know, Hickey is usually not considered serious, but some complications have been reported in the recent past, so it is necessary for a neurologist like us that we should inform you about what problems we can have from these hiccian or love bights. ‘
‘Love bytes can cause three types of problems. One is carotid sinus. Actually, there is a group of nerve cells on the edge of the neck, so whenever a love byte is done, these nerve cells are activated and cells are nerve cells attached to the heart, so they have a tendency to reduce heart rate or reduce blood pressure. This can cause dizziness, you can fall and there can be any complications of any kind.
‘The second thing is that suppose there is already a clot in the neck’s vasils, then now if someone puts more emphasis on those Vacills with love bytes, then they are likely to move and move towards the head. Now in such a situation, when these clots reach the brain, it can cause stroke.
‘The third thing is that during which the neck is loudly on the neck, if there is a possibility of delicate blood vesels of the neck and their layer bursting, blood clots freeze and blood can come out. Therefore, it is necessary that when someone is very sensitive, one should be conscious of such things.
2011 A woman from New Zealand was paralyzed after Hickey. Emergency doctors found a blood clot in his brain and treated stroke. At the same time, a 35 -year -old woman in Denmark had a weakness in the right part of the body due to stroke 12 hours after Hickey.
Webmed According to, there is very unusual conditions to stroke from hickey. The reason for this is that a main artery passes through both sides of your neck which is called carotid. It supplies blood to your brain, face and neck. When there is a lot of pressure on the carotid artery during hickey, it can form a blood clot or the first present clot can move from its place and increase the risk of stroke. The women of New Zealand and Denmark may have already had arterial problems, which can cause them more at risk of stroke.
What are the side effects of Hickey?
Healthline According to, there should not be much problem with hickey, but if the hiccian marks do not go for a long time, there is more pain on the body, hiccian marks are formed in many places on the body, if a lump is formed on the hickey, then you should contact a doctor because these symptoms can also be a sign of a medical condition like any blood related disease or blood clot problem. Although its possibility is not very high, there are some serious injuries after Hickey, including paralysis and stroke.
However, a blue or black mark like hickey is also called erythema nodosum. These can also be symptoms of some diseases. Which includes …
- TB
- bacterial infection
- Fungal infection
- Sarcoidosis
- Inflammatory bowl disease
- Thrombocytopenia
Although the symptoms of hickey can be the same in these conditions, but also know that Hickey appears only after a moment. In order to become a serious health problem, marks like hickey appear in the body without any reason and many other symptoms are also revealed.
How long does Hickey last?
By the way, like other injuries, Hickey may take 3 days to 2-3 weeks to be correct. Hickey injury is under your skin surface, so it takes time to recover. However, the color of Hickey gradually changes and it cures.
First day: The red clot will appear due to blood freezing under the skin.
First day from the first day: The color of the injury turns blue-purple or black when the hemoglobin (blood-contains protein carries oxygen) in the blood.
Fifth to tenth day: The color of the hickey can be green or yellow.
Tenth to fourteenth day: The mark of hickey turns yellow, brown or light brown and slowly begins to fade.
In a few days, Hickey disappears completely and your skin becomes normal.
How to get rid of hickey?
Hickey marks start appearing very quickly. Within 5 to 10 minutes of onset, light bruises may appear on the skin. However, it also depends on how long you can or bite the person’s skin. The longer someone puts pressure on the skin with strength and strength, the darker and darker the bruise will be.
If you feel swollen and irritation in hickey, then you can compress ice on hickey for 1-2 days first. To compress ice, take ice and wrap it in cloth and keep it on your skin for about 15 minutes in a while. After 2 days you can do hot compress. If there is no swelling or burning sensation in your hiccia, then you immediately hot and repeat it 4 times a day. By doing this, the blood flow will increase at that place and the mark will be lighter. If there is pain in the hickey, then over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen can be taken with the advice of a doctor.
Before doing anything, take a clean spoon and keep it in your freezer for eight to ten minutes and then compress the hickey with it, it can give immediate relief.
When there is a mark of hickey on your neck, then if it is seen to anyone, then anyone can be uncomfortable. In such a situation, if you are searching ways to hide hickey, then you can hide it with makeup, long neck shirt or top, dupatta for girls, high collar shirts etc.
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