Nosebleeds?!
Question: My 10 year old son suffers from fairly regular nosebleeds. Whilst he is not at all distressed by them, can anyone advise what the correct thing for him to do when he get one. As I child I was always told to put my head back and put a cold face cloth over my nose, but my husband tells him to lean forward and pinch the bridge of his nose for a while? Any advice please?
Answers: My 10 year old son suffers from fairly regular nosebleeds. Whilst he is not at all distressed by them, can anyone advise what the correct thing for him to do when he get one. As I child I was always told to put my head back and put a cold face cloth over my nose, but my husband tells him to lean forward and pinch the bridge of his nose for a while? Any advice please?
For many years the first aid advice has been lean forward and pinch the nose. The old advice of leaning back is over 20 years out of date. If the nose bleeds persist see your GP as he may require nasal cautery.
Your husband is correct if you tell him to lean his head back the blood will be going in him where as when he leans forward it comes out which is much safer and the holding the nose thing is to stop it
husband doing right thing b/c the bridge stop blood leaving your brain and tring to get out the nose
he should be leaning back and pinching bridge of his nose good luck
Yeah..if the head is backwards he stands the chance of blood clotting in the throat?? Not nice and dangerous...so as others say put head forward and pinch nose....Bit distressing to be getting frequent ones though...check out what he's being exposed to...somethings causing it....My wife's lining is fragile and it keeps leaking blood too......she had hers cauterised but it hasn't been a full success due to her constant sneezing???
leaning forwards is fine if you happen to have a tissue to catch the blood.but that is what docs recommend.
Personally I still lean back and sniff. I always found that pinching the bridge of the nose made it last a lot longer (possibly because it opens up the breach even further. By leaning back and sniffing gently it usually stops by itself in 10-20 seconds.
Your husband is right, he needs to lean forward and pinch the top fleshy part of the nose directly below the boney bit.