We report 2 cases of vaginal bleeding in young girls that resulted from a leech bite and required treatment. Clinical presentation and management for young girls is described. Health professionals ...

The discrediting of general "bleeding" as a treatment for everything ... off as the more effective medicinal leech. H decora, which was imported, does not bite as deep and so was less effective ...

The morbidity associated with a leech bite is mainly due to 2 factors -- mechanical obstruction of a vital organ and/or severe bleeding, as in our cases. Vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite is rare.