Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles How does blood clot? With the help of glue. Not at all. Our blood consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, clotting factors, etc. Suspended in a liquid plasma. Hey. I too have a plasma, look. Please listen. Usually, when a blood vessel gets ruptured and we bleed, our blood begins to form a clot. First, the platelets start sticking to the broken vessel and each other. Thus forming a loose plug. But this plug is not enough to stop bleeding. Hence, The clotting factors take part in a complex chain of chemical reactions and create fibrin strands. These strands criss-cross one another and create a mesh that tightly holds the loose plug together. Makes it strong. Red blood cells and white blood cells also get trapped in the mesh. Thus creating a blood clot that completely stops bleeding.
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