How To Stop a Nosebleed

There is a lot of junk on the internet about how to stop nosebleeds. Putting a piece of brown grocery sack on the roof of your mouth will not work. Putting ice on your nose is not going to work.

In my experience, 90% of nosebleeds come from the front of your nose. Specifically from the septum, the cartilage in the middle of your nose.

What to do for a nosebleed?

The directions that follow do not apply if you have severe hypertension, are on blood thinners or have other severe medical problems. For everyone else, this trick will often stop a nosebleed or at least slow it down until you can get medical help.

Directions:

1. Get a cotton ball. Tear about half of it off. If you have a huge nose, use the whole piece.

2. Saturate the cotton ball with Afrin, Dristan, 4-Way nasal, etc.

3. Take a deep breath.

4. Close the side of your nose that is not bleeding with your finger and blow the blood and clot out of the side that is bleeding.

5. Now, as quickly as possible, put the saturated cotton ball on the side of your nose that is bleeding.

6. Now, pinch the front of your nose for about 15 minutes.

When to worry about a nosebleed?

The Afrin or similar products cause your blood vessels to contract. Combining them with the pressure you exert by pinching the front of your nose gives you the best chance of stopping your nosebleed.

Remove the cotton ball from your nose if the bleeding is not slowing down within a few minutes. Blow the blood out again and put 4-5 squirts of Afrin, etc., in your nose.

If you are still bleeding after that, you need to go to the emergency room.

What to do after a nosebleed?

Obviously, this won’t work if you don’t have Afrin or cotton balls around. I tell my patients who are prone to nosebleeds to put the Afrin and the cotton balls in a ziploc so they can find them in a hurry if they need them.

Till next week,
James Atkins, MD Follow me on Twitter.

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