Anyone with hemophilia out there?

Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty and thus is sometimes known as "the royal disease". Queen Victoria passed the mutation to her son Leopold and, through s...

Hemophilia (heem-o-FILL-ee-ah) is a rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which your blood doesn鈥檛 clot normally. If you have hemophilia, you may bleed for a longer time than others after an injury....

isn't that where your body doesn't produce enough platelets to clog a bleeding cut?

Yes, it is. It is a sex-linked disease. The disease is carried on an X chromosome, and generally occurs in males. That sounds contradictory, so I'll try to explain. A male has one X an...

There are special clotting factors for it, depending on the type, but the one's I've heard of are called Humate P and Alphanate. There used to be one called Cryoprecipitate but it was tak...

My older sister has Hemophilia and turned 56 in July. I've known many with this disease of the blood but never heard they couldn't live as long as everyone else, only that they have to ta...

the sex chromosome

Can't tell. Both males may derive from a single female carrier. Conversely, there may be many female carriers who have not reproduced or who have not transmitted the disease.