Excessive Nose Bleeds? Anybody/Doctors around? :( help needed...

Commonly, a dry nasal mucosa can result in nosebleeds, especially from an area toward the front of the septum called Kesselbach's plexus: a network of fine capillaries.
Saline sprays usually do the trick, but sometimes the doctor has to cauterize that area.
Good luck.

 

is the air very dry around you?

 

i was thinking the same thing. i RARELY get them, and ONLY when the air is REEEEEEEALLY dry.

 

Use a humidifier at night.

 

I had this same problem. Chronic nosebleeds, for about 3 years....tried putting vaseline up my nose, humidifier, everything.....it helped a little bit, but not too much. Finally I went in to the ER on one very bad bleed and had my nose cauterized. (they use a chemical cauterizer)....it burned real bad for about 30 seconds.........I haven't had a nosebleed now in 4 years. Period.

 

Sadly cauterization is not a permanent fix.

I've personally had nosebleeds all my life. I've had ones that I went through an entire roll of paper towels, and one where I had to clean the driveway off with a garden hose...

my nose has been cauterized twice already, and at 21 I am just as susceptible to getting the random nosebleeds at any time of day as well.

So far, I have yet to find anything that really helps. Just be wary of getting it cauterized. I do recommend going to a ENT specialist (Ear Nose and Throat specialist.) Sometimes they can help, sometimes they can't, but they will definitely give you better advice then what you'll get at an urgent care place.

 

I get them occasionally in the winter when the dry heat runs... this may be gross but I put some Neosporin on my little finger and twist it up my nose. It works (for a week).

 

If this is happening only in the winter I would check the humidity levels with a humidastat. Don't just guess. If it is around 40% or below I'd get a humidifier or two. Portable ones don't work well at all. If you have central air, have one installed on the unit. Drink a couple of litres of water a day and see if that helps.

A couple of other reasons could be lack of sleep and lack of iron. So getting great rest and eating your leafy veggies might help (spinich).

 

Lots of good advice here. Good news and bad news...bad news first, a nosebleed could be a sign of a more sinister underlying condition. The good news is that at your age and current health it is probably a sign that the hunidifier in your house is set too low with the furnace on.

When you sleep you are probably an obligate nose breather. As you inhale the drier warm air in your house this will dry out the nasal mucosa. This layer of tissue is very thin and rich in blood supply so a little crack can bleed like a mother. Try dialing up the humidifier, getting a room humidifier or using saline sprays before you go to bed and after you wake up in the morning.

As to why it only happens in one nostril, who knows it could be a multitude of reasons but here is my best guess...remember I am a funeral director, not a doctor so my knowledge of disease and anatomy is not to MD spec...maybe you had a plugged nostril or have a deviated septum and more dry air was comming through one side. This one nostril became dried and cracked and you got a nosebleed. This crack scabbed over but never healed fully...it continues to be dry and bleed easily but it is probably from the same area.

If you continue to have problems go see an MD.

 

what do you think, your some kinda dr or something.........

 

i had my nose cauterized when i was 12 because of this same issue. now at 32, it has been happening to me again. the good news is i bleed rosso corse

 

Calm down the cocaine usage?

 

Dang, I was bout to say the same thing ;-)

 

I buried a guy earlier this week that had a pretty bad coke habit. The septum in his nose had completely disolved so you could look in one nostril and see light from the other side...you think he had a nosebleed problem?

 

Had the same problem when I was your age (a gong, gong time alo) - every Sunday for months, just before church! Everybody was suspicious, though. It was great - got to watch a whole season of Hockey when they only focused on a couple of teams (playing different opponents, of course).

 

I get them in the am as well. For me it is definately the dry heat in the house. I did not read every repsonse here, but the severity of the bleeds sounds concerning and like another poster mentioned it could be indicative of a larger medical problem. Some one corect me if I am wrong, but couldn't it be high blood pressure. Good luck

 

It sure could be...along with a host of other maladies...but he does not seem to be in the age group that would have to worry about high blood pressure. Rule out the simple stuff then go for rarities.

 

Same here, had mine done per doctor's orders at age 12. Haven't had those nosebleeds ever since -- and I just turned 39.

 

Lay off the coke.

Just kidding!

 

By the way, most sinus & plastic surgeons use a spray pre-op w/ a mixture containing cocaine as an analgesic as well as a vasoconstrictor to reduce bleeding

 

Hey, maybe we could start a thread where we can all ask medical questions and our resident doctors can answer them...! I have this growth on my... um, nevermind.