DS nose keeps bleeding 2 times a week
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Anonymous
| His nose started bleeding again as soon as he woke up this morning. I am thinking it's also dry air in his room/house. How can I treat this? Should I put a humidifier in his room? Recommendations? |
Anonymous
| Yes Humidifier. Immediate difference. Good luck!! |
Anonymous
| Saline nasal spray |
Anonymous
| Humidifer helps enormously. |
Anonymous
| You may want to ask your doctor. As a kid I had this and the doctor needed to cauterize a blood vessel in my nose that kept opening. |
Anonymous
The same thing happened to my son so I finally made an appointment with the ENT. That same night, he had a huge nosebleed and the little piece of skin that kept opening up finally fell out. Gross but that was the end of it. |
Anonymous
| Humidifier! Monitor the humidity in your house so it doesn't get that low. Dh used to get a nosebleed daily until we ran humidifiers nonstop. |
Anonymous
| Op here. Thanks. Which humidifier do you recommend? |
Anonymous
| Humidifier and Ayr saline gel applied to the area where it bleeds from for 2 weeks, twice a day. My DS has a 'weak spot" so says the ENT and we did get a prescription ointment for it. So when the nosebleeds start up my DS restarts that for 2 weeks followed by the Ayr for a week or two. |
Anonymous
| Mine does the same thing. He picks at it overnight and then it bleeds and he gets freaked out by blood on his pillow. Also had a bloody nose at school and got sent to the nurse and got blood on his shirt. He's almost 6. How old is yours? |
Anonymous
Get a warm mist one. |
Anonymous
And always use distilled water, no matter which kind you get. I do prefer the warm mist ones, though. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but why should people use distilled water all the time? What problems can DC tap water in humidifiers cause? |
Anonymous
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NP here. I have the same issue as does my youngest DS (now 10). We've got a whole house humidifier on our furnace but that's not sufficient. I also run a warm mist humidifier. I don't use distilled water but do clean the unit every week to remove scale and disinfect. I have severe environmental allergies and this is sufficient for me.
Every evening/morning, for DS, he uses a saline spray every morning/evening. Periodically, I will swap his nose with vaseline. For me, if I do nasal irrigation on a regular basis, I don't need to use the vaseline. HTH. |
Anonymous
| We put Vaseline in DS's nose before bed whenever the heat is on to avoid nosebleeds. |