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What Causes Traces Of Blood In Mouth After Being Punched In The Eye?

I was recently attacked and punched in my eye, aside from a bit of subconjunctival haemorrhage in my eye and a black eye I have noticed i can taste blood constantly in my mouth but yet when i spit theres very little traces of blood, none of my teeth feel loose and my gums all look fine. what could cause this?
Fri, 25 Apr 2014
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The most probable reason to me looks to be a fracture of the maxilla on the same side tricking blood coming into mouth .
Another is the duct from the eye draining blood into the nose and then into the mouth.
You need to undergo X-ray or CT scan of the face to see the chance of fracture.
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What Causes Traces Of Blood In Mouth After Being Punched In The Eye?

Hi. The most probable reason to me looks to be a fracture of the maxilla on the same side tricking blood coming into mouth . Another is the duct from the eye draining blood into the nose and then into the mouth. You need to undergo X-ray or CT scan of the face to see the chance of fracture.