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What Is The Cause And Treatment For Nose Bleeding?

hi, everynight for about 2 weeks my nose bleeds for no reason what-so-ever! but today when I was playing with my dog her tail hit me, but only softly, and it started bleeding for about 5 mins, please help me it is so embarrassing having sleep overs with my friends.

Jasmine
Mon, 12 May 2014
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Hi Jasmine, Nose bleeding can be very common, specially in hot dry weather, where your nasal mucosa may dry up, which may lead to frequent nose picking (bleeding from the Little's area). However, if that is not the cause, then nose bleeding (epistaxis as we call it), may be due to local causes like, Deviated nasal septum (where the partition between you two nostrils may be curved) or nasal polyps (may be common if you are allergy proned). You can also get your Blood Pressure checked, to rule out hypertension (which can be a cause of nasal bleeding). I would also like to enquire whether, there is any history of bleeding disorder in your family.
But taking you history into account, it seems to be more of a local cause than systemic. You can apply emollients, to prevent nasal mucosa drying.
Cold compress may help (by constricting the local blood vessels) and in case of very heavy bleeding you can use Tablet Tranexamic Acid (500 mg) to stop the bleeding.
But I would advice you to get yourself checked up by a otorhinolaryngologist to rule out a DNS or Nasal polyp and do some basic investigation like Hb and Platelet
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What Is The Cause And Treatment For Nose Bleeding?

Hi Jasmine, Nose bleeding can be very common, specially in hot dry weather, where your nasal mucosa may dry up, which may lead to frequent nose picking (bleeding from the Little s area). However, if that is not the cause, then nose bleeding (epistaxis as we call it), may be due to local causes like, Deviated nasal septum (where the partition between you two nostrils may be curved) or nasal polyps (may be common if you are allergy proned). You can also get your Blood Pressure checked, to rule out hypertension (which can be a cause of nasal bleeding). I would also like to enquire whether, there is any history of bleeding disorder in your family. But taking you history into account, it seems to be more of a local cause than systemic. You can apply emollients, to prevent nasal mucosa drying. Cold compress may help (by constricting the local blood vessels) and in case of very heavy bleeding you can use Tablet Tranexamic Acid (500 mg) to stop the bleeding. But I would advice you to get yourself checked up by a otorhinolaryngologist to rule out a DNS or Nasal polyp and do some basic investigation like Hb and Platelet