Nosebleeds...

[Lenny]

I seem to get them yearly (late fall/early winter) I use those salt water moisturizing thingies often and chug down at the very minimum 8 glasses of water. I take vitamins every day and occasionally drink tea (though I don't know why that's important).

It seems no matter what I do they just don't stop. I typically crouch over on my knees and hang my head over a bowl or the toilet/shower stall while pressing right below the bridge of my nose. They usually last about 6-10mins.

So, since I'm pretty well guarenteed to have one everyday until after the new year, I was wondering, what do you guys do to help them stop quicker? Any home-brewed remedies?

Thanks.

[tropical_fishy]

The little girl I was a nanny for this summer got nosebleeds awfully. It was pretty much daily or every other day. She swears by blowing her nose as hard as she can until the "clot" comes out-- her words, not mine. All I know is that she'd spend ~2 minutes over the sink, blowing her nose until this big wad of snot, blood, and God-knows-what-else came out. If she couldn't get it out, she'd shove tampons or toilet paper up her nose.

[Glickman]

i get them alot from the dryness, expecially early in the morning.

for me, i was told to just keep your head straight and dont touch the nose that way the platelets will form quicker (and that by touching it, you are prologing the time it will take to stop it)

other than that, i havent heard of anything that works

[jenarelJAM]

I don't get nosebleeds
Sorry dude...

[Glickman]

I don't get nosebleeds
Sorry dude...

heres a quick procedure guarenteed to work:
1. Go up to female
2. As for a sandwich
3. Ask her to hurry up "woman"
4. Learn your lesson
5. Forget lesson in 10 minutes
6. Rinse, lather and repeat

[jenarelJAM]

Lol, the funny thing is, my friend does that all the time, and he never gets slapped... Why???

[Lenny]

The little girl I was a nanny for this summer got nosebleeds awfully. It was pretty much daily or every other day. She swears by blowing her nose as hard as she can until the "clot" comes out-- her words, not mine. All I know is that she'd spend ~2 minutes over the sink, blowing her nose until this big wad of snot, blood, and God-knows-what-else came out. If she couldn't get it out, she'd shove tampons or toilet paper up her nose.

I have noticed after the clot comes out it does stop... Kind of gross, though. Like a long bloody loogie...

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

heres a quick procedure guarenteed to work:
1. Go up to female
2. As for a sandwich
3. Ask her to hurry up "woman"
4. Learn your lesson
5. Forget lesson in 10 minutes
6. Rinse, lather and repeat

Hmm... Might I add one correction? When ordering a woman to make you food, you should never pronounce it "sandwich." It should always be pronounced "sammich."

[SpecialBlend2786]

I used to get them all the time.

Save yourself the greif and just get your nose quarterized. The number of nosebleeds that I get has drastically decreased since I had mine done.

[Thordic]

I get them sometimes in the winter. I doubt it matters how much you drink, the dry cold air just dries up your nasal linings and then they bleed pretty easily.

You are the first person I've met who leans forward though. Seems unnecessarily messy. Swallowing blood isn't going to hurt you, tilt your head back and pinch the bridge of your nose. As long as you dont jam it up your nose, use some cotton or tissues to keep from bleeding all over yourself.

As for blowing your nose, it doesn't stop the bleeding, but it does get rid of a lot of excess blood from your sinuses. There isn't a "clot" that comes out, but the blood seems to loosen a lot of mucus from your sinus, so if you blow your nose when you have a bloody nose, a huge gob of bloody mucus will come out along with the blood that was just pooling in your sinus. So then theres less blood to drip out your nose.

6-10 minutes does seem excessive though, so you might want to see a doctor. When I get them, they don't last more than a minute and generally aren't very serious.

[bamf-hacker]

I get nose bleeds all the time and have for the last 34 years. When I was young I would get my nose cauterized 2 times a year.

If you get a nose bleed, take a wad of cotton or paper towel and push it up under your upper lip. Press hard. The vain that supplies blood to the nose is there and it will stop your nose bleed almost instantly.

I feel for you man. I know what it is like.

[billybob_81067]

Take a piece of toilet paper, kleenex, or shop rag and twist a corner into a tight wad and shove it up your nose. Let it sit for awhile until you think it may be stopped, or until the wad soaks through. Roll up another wad, quickly pull the old one out over a trashcan or sink or something like that and see if it's still bleeding or not, if it still is then shove the next wad in, and so on and so on.

Then when it stops blow your nose to get that nasty bloody snot clog out.

[tropical_fishy]

Lol, the funny thing is, my friend does that all the time, and he never gets slapped... Why???

Perhaps he is rich or attractive. Or perhaps he's just not worth noticing, let alone expending the energy to slap.

[Altimas]

Or she puts Butt Phlegm in the Samich

[MANN]

I get nose bleeds all the time and have for the last 34 years. When I was young I would get my nose cauterized 2 times a year.

If you get a nose bleed, take a wad of cotton or paper towel and push it up under your upper lip. Press hard. The vain that supplies blood to the nose is there and it will stop your nose bleed almost instantly.

I feel for you man. I know what it is like.

This works great for me. I get them bad, and also play hockey so its sorta a double whammie. If its during a game, or at home on the couch this method words great for me.

[sbpyro]

preventive measure

Buy a humidifier and keep it running.