If your doctor rules out a sinus infection, allergies, or irritated blood vessels, he or she may order other tests to see why you're getting frequent nosebleeds. Rarely, a bleeding disorder or abnormally formed blood vessels could be a possibility. Cocaine or other drugs that are snorted through the nose can also cause nosebleeds. If you suspect a friend is using cocaine, try talking about it and get help from a trusted adult. An occasional nosebleed may make you worry, but there's no need to panic — now you know what to do!
Reviewed by: Michelle P. Tellado, MD. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. How Can I Stop a Nosebleed? Try these simple tips to stop a nosebleed: Get some tissues or a damp cloth to catch the blood. Sit up or stand. Tilt your head forward and pinch your nostrils together just below the bony center part of your nose. Applying pressure helps stop the blood flow and the nosebleed will usually stop with 10 minutes of steady pressure.
Swallowing a large amount of blood may cause your child to have a stomachache or vomit throw up. How to Help Prevent Nosebleeds Fingernails should be cut short to prevent scratching the inside of the nose.
Keep fingers and objects out of the nose. Avoid rubbing the nose. Teach your child to blow their nose gently. Be sure to clean the machine once a week. Smear a very thin coat of nasal ointment inside each nostril 2 to 3 times a day, especially at bedtime, for 2 weeks during the dry season.
This will keep the lining of the nose moist. For colds or a stuffy nose, use a saline nose spray — 2 sprays to each nostril, 2 or more times a day. Your nose has a significant supply of blood in it, which can lead to bleeding when you blow your nose frequently.
Home-based and over-the-counter treatments may alleviate this condition if you experience it only occasionally or for a short stretch of time. You may experience slight or heavy bleeding from your nose because of damage to the interior of your nasal passages.
The majority of nosebleeds occur in the septum of the nose, particularly the front bottom section of this area. The septum is where your nose separates into two different sides. Your nose has many blood vessels that can become damaged for a variety of reasons. Once the blood vessel is damaged, you may experience bleeding more frequently when blowing your nose. This is because the scab covering the broken blood vessel during the healing process may break off.
You may find that you experience bleeding when blowing your nose more commonly in the winter months. It may become even more dry and irritated in the winter because you spend time in heated indoor environments that lack humidity. Dryness in your nose can also cause a delay in the healing of broken blood vessels and result in infections in this organ. This in turn can lead to more frequent experiences of bleeding when blowing your nose.
Picking your nose can damage blood vessels. Nose picking in children is a frequent cause of bloody noses. With young children, this could be something that they put in their nose.
One study found that 5 percent of participants using steroid spray for allergic and nonallergic rhinitis had a bloody nose within a two-month period. Medical attention may be required. High blood pressure hypertension is also more common in people with nosebleeds and may make it harder to stop the bleeding, but it's not clear whether this directly causes nosebleeds.
Most nosebleeds can be stopped without the need for medical attention, but occasionally further treatment may be required. However, you should still follow the recovery advice outlined below. If you see your GP or go to hospital with a nosebleed, you will be assessed to determine how serious your condition is and what's likely to have caused it.
This may involve looking inside your nose, measuring your pulse and blood pressure, carrying out blood tests and asking about any other symptoms you have.
The main treatments that your GP or hospital doctor may use to stop your nose bleeding are described below. Your doctor may prescribe an antibiotic ointment. This should be applied by squeezing a pea-sized amount onto the front of the nasal septum wall between the nostrils.
This can reduce the inflammation and crusting in the nose and reduce the severity and frequency of nosebleeds. If your doctor is able to identify exactly where the bleeding is coming from, they may carry out a minor procedure to seal the bleeding blood vessel by cauterising burning it.
This is normally done using a stick of a chemical called silver nitrate. A local anaesthetic will be sprayed into your nose to numb it and the silver nitrate stick will be held against the bleeding point for up to 10 seconds. If cautery is ineffective or your doctor is unable to identify a specific bleeding point, they may recommend packing your nose with gauze or special nasal sponges to stop the flow of blood by applying pressure to the source of the bleeding.
Packing will usually be carried out after local anaesthetic has been sprayed into your nose. The gauze or sponges often need to be left in place for hours before being removed by a health professional.
You'll usually need to be admitted to hospital to be monitored during this time. If the treatments above don't help, you may be referred to a hospital specialist such as an ear, nose and throat ENT doctor for further treatment. Once your nose has stopped bleeding, you should follow the advice below to reduce the risk of your nose bleeding again and to stop you picking up an infection:.
If you see a GP or a hospital doctor about your nosebleed, they may give you a prescription for an antiseptic nasal cream once the bleeding stops. This should be applied to the inside of your nostrils several times a day for up to two weeks to help prevent further bleeding.
If your nose does start to bleed again, follow the first aid advice above and seek medical advice if the bleeding doesn't stop.
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