Nose bleeds

[sherrardk]

Why do we get nose bleeds? Just sitting here minding my own business and I have had a nose bleed.

[vodkancoke]

I get them all the time sherrardk, they are so annoying. I don't know why we get them. I usually get them if my blood pressure is higher than normal, if I am stressed, if I have a migraine or if I sneeze. Hate them!

[Buenchico]

From the NHS website:
http://www.nhs.uk/Con...eed/Pages/Causes.aspx

Chris

[sherrardk]

Hi both, used to get terrible nose bleeds as a kid, haven't had one for years. Shouldn't have looked at the NHS site as boy #1 has been having nose bleeds lately too and now it has got me worrying (not loads, but a bit).

[vodkancoke]

Ive had them ever since I was 6, I'm now 34. I only recently had my nose cauterized (sp) but it didnt work sadly. They are awful things :(

[welshlibranr]

my OH used to have rally heavy nose bleeds regularly, then was diagnosed with high blood pressure, he was given medication for this, and now never has a nose bleed............

[Buenchico]

Sherrardk;
Even if Boy #1 does require medical treatment for his nose bleeds, it probably won't be anything very serious. When I was in my teens I started having several real 'gushers' every day. (I was losing so much blood that I came close to blacking out several times). The doctor diagnosed the infection and prescribed some ointment to rub up my nose (which can be very tricky when you're particularly prone to nose bleeds!). However it only took a few days for the problem to clear up.

[sherrardk]

Hi all - had my nose cauterised (sp) when I was a teenager. Not overly worried about boy #1 but sometimes websites can get you thinking the worst. Would honestly be a nervous wreck if I googled the symptoms of any illness that the kids get (now you have to imagine one of those ironic type face things as I can't do them).

[Buenchico]

It's ridiculous to do too much self-diagnosis on the web.

BTW, does anyone know whether the beri beri, yellow fever and bubonic plague that I'm currently suffering from will adversely affect my pregnancy?

[sherrardk]

Hi Buenchico, I was really poorly when thing 1 and thing 2 were about three months old and the doctor looked up my symptoms on Wikipedia (they were seriously considering Kawasaki syndrome/disease at one stage).

[Buenchico]

Well I'm glad that the twins weren't actually suffering from any form of heart disease but (Unless I'd googled it) I'd have assumed that one of the symptoms of Kawasaki Syndrome would have been sounding like a motorbike ;-)

[sherrardk]

Would have been funny if I hadn't been feeling so ill - Japanese female children get Kawasaki's thingy.

[Buenchico]

I must learn to read posts properly. (I've just noticed that it was you who was ill, not the twins, sorry - but Kawasaki Syndrome is usually a childhood condition anyway).

Either way, I'm still glad that you're all healthy now. (If it's not being too intrusive, may I ask what you were really suffering from? Or was it just one of those things that never got properly diagnosed?)

[redcrx]

I could've written that myself, sherrardk! I've had about 4 this week already. I too used to get the as a kid, only in high summer, yet in the last 20 years very few. My son has also had one this week so he may be same as me though I hope not.

[sherrardk]

After heart tests (arranged at considerable speed - nearly gave me heart failure) and seeing various specialists at the hospital (again, at speed) they decided upon glandular fever. I really thought I was going to die, I felt so awful. Saying that, we had just gone bankrupt and I had had a ceaserean (so badly spelt) and was breast feeding thing 1 and thing 2 so something had to give! Give the local NHS their due, they were excellent.

[Buenchico]

Glandular fever? Isn't that usually caught from snogging? In which case . .

Er, no, perhaps I'd better not ask!
;-)

[Sqad]

The old NHS web links..........designed to bring medicine to the home and succeeds in complicating a simple problem.

Nose bleeds ...far and away occur in 2 situations.

1) In children
2) In the elderly.

In children it is almost always due to a prominent blood vessel just inside the nose in an area called Little's area (Google it) and it ids easily dealt with by simple cauterization.

In the elderly, it is usually caused by a blood vessel high up and way back in the nose, way out of reach of the cautery and these may be more difficult to control.

There are rarer, much rarer causes of nose bleeds, but the above two categories would encpass 95% of nose bleeds.

[redcrx]

are you trying to say Sherrardk and I are elderly, sqad?

[Sqad]

redx....LOL

[piggynose]

i´ve had nose bleeds for 40 years now. theres never a warning, i usually think my nose is running. the only solution i find is to shove kleenex up my nose for about an hour, until it congeals.