For the about the last 3 months, I get nose bleeds periodically-maybe 2 weeks apart. There's nothing to cause it-no aggravation to the nose. I'll be sitting around or doing whatever, and then I'll notice blood starting to drip from my nose. This week was a little worse. I had one today and the previous one 2 days ago.
Does anyone else have nose bleeds from time to time, and if so, what would cause it? This is a mystery to me.
Does your nose feel dry?
I did a LOT when I was a kid. Started taking a vitamin C supplement and they just full stopped.
(11-12-2009 08:18 PM)Dana Wrote: [ -> ]Does your nose feel dry?
I did a LOT when I was a kid. Started taking a vitamin C supplement and they just full stopped.
I'm hoping it's something that simple. I can handle that. I have been eating more citrus fruit lately, so hopefully that will help. About the dry nose: no, not really.
Dry air will cause that problem, even if your nose seems relatively moist at the tip.
I know someone who was having problems so the doctor put polysporin and vaseline on a q-tip, which he stuck up my friend's nose and wiggled it around slightly to get good coverage. So see if you can find a better option before visiting your doctor (although if you're stuck my friend noticed instant results as it was effective).
(11-12-2009 10:50 PM)Ziggy Wrote: [ -> ]So see if you can find a better option before visiting your doctor (although if you're stuck my friend noticed instant results as it was effective).
Going to doctor will be a last alternative. I don't want anyone shoving things up my nose. That's not my idea of fun. I must admit, I did consider it one time when I had a nose bleed during the night and I woke up lying on a bloody pillow. It immediately reminded me of the scene in The Godfather with the horse's head in bed. lol.
I did, or had the Q-tip thing done to me. It was OK but it was the vitamin C that did it for me - I got enough food wise, but the supplement - a chewable - was the miracle cure. As long as I did that daily, never had another nose bleed. I don't take them anymore now that I'm an adult but as a kid it was like ALL the time, I'd just be sitting there minding my own business and there ya go here comes the blood. The C pill made them stop immediately and 100%.
My father gets such severe nosebleeds in dry and cold weather that I'll start to panic if he mentions it. He bleeds and bleeds and bleeds for hours and always ends up in the ER (at my insistence) because no home remedy will stop it and he loses a lot of blood. It sometimes comes out of his eye! He's had to have his nose packed and cauterized in the past. He now uses nose sprays a few times a day to keep his nose hydrated.
I get them periodically, too, though nowhere near as bad as my father does. It's usually because the air is very dry or I'm rubbing my nose too much (my nose itches a lot). Usually, I just stuff some gauze up there if it doesn't stop in a few minutes. Another weird thing I do is if it's really, really dry, I'll take some lip gloss (uh, not scented or colored!) and rub it in my nostrils. Works for me, but you have to be really careful about what kind of gloss you use. Burt's Bees is a good one.
(11-13-2009 06:51 PM)Nadleeh Wrote: [ -> ]It's usually because the air is very dry or I'm rubbing my nose too much (my nose itches a lot).
I found that to be true also in my case-my nose gets itchy a day or so before I get the nose bleed and I don't rub my nose enough to cause it to bleed. But maybe even a light rubbing is breaking a small vein if it's dry and brittle.
Thanks for the tips.
Check your humidity levels.
DH gets them all the time. Humidifier comes out in the winter because of the dry air. He also uses Neosporin in his nose about once a week and that seems to help.
He has terrible sinus issues so he is constantly blowing his nose so that could be a major part of it.
I appriciate the comments about vitamin C. I may tell him that too.