Nosebleed - don't look down

Normally, when nosebleeds, blood is taken immediately. However, in some cases, bleeding can be repeated in 10-30 days, endangering the patient's life.

Absolutely not swallow blood (Photo: TTO)

The epistaxis usually occurs in the winter, or more accurately when the ambient temperature begins to decrease. However, the culprit causing this situation is not a change in temperature but a decrease in the humidity of the air. This is especially true where heating or air conditioning is used.

In most cases, blood oozes from tiny capillaries located in the mucosa covering the nasal septum - the cartilage divides this part into two left and right sockets.

The air is dry (by using a heater or air conditioner), causing the mucosa to become dehydrated and damaged. Its capillaries break and release small amounts of blood.

Surveys show that men have more nosebleeds than women. There are big differences between age groups:

- Teens and young people: The bleeding point usually comes from the anterior part of the nose (more than 80% of cases). Common causes are upper respiratory injury or inflammation.

- The most common nasal bleeding in people over 40 (64%). The cause is arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, tumors . Also, it may be due to the vascular wall at this age has poor elasticity.

The number of patients increased significantly during the transition period because of weather changes that greatly affected some systemic diseases (such as hypertension, allergies .) or disruption of vasomotor, mucosal injury nasal cavity.

- Most of the remaining cases cannot identify the cause. These are natural nose bleeds, low blood flow, self-hold, or recurring, often occurring during exertion or outdoors.

How to handle: Absolutely not swallow blood

The person with nosebleed needs to sit low, head slightly tilted forward; Loosen clothes, especially the neck to help breathe better, softer. Squeeze the affected nose for 5-10 minutes.

However, if blood persists, hospitalization is required. Need to be calm, avoid panic.

Applying cream or Vaselin to the inside of the nose is not a long-term solution because it does not help restore the moisture of the mucosa. Sprays tend to worsen nasal dryness.

According to health experts, nasal sprays use water or dilute saline water. Mechanical devices such as bottles make the humidity of the air in the room helpful.

Avoid sneezing or impacting your nose for several hours. Absolutely not swallow (to avoid bloating and toxins caused by blood breakdown).

If away from a medical facility, a long, clean piece of cloth can be found pressing deep into the bleeding nasal cavity; then urgently transport the patient to the nearest medical facility to stop the bleeding and find the cause for treatment.

Watch out for fibroids in the nose and throat in children

When the baby has a nosebleed, it is necessary to let him lie still, using cotton to stop bleeding. Have your child go to the hospital right away for treatment if epistaxis with sudden high fever, or continuous bleeding with pus, or heavy flow or relapse lasts 1-2 weeks . because that may be the expression of a dangerous disease such as nasopharyngeal tumors.

Nasopharyngeal fibrosis is a common disease in children aged 6-15 years, mostly male children. The initial symptoms are epistaxis, repeated relapses, increasing blood flow. After a while, if left untreated, the tumor will grow large and the child will have symptoms of nasal congestion and tinnitus.

U usually develop very quickly, spread into the nasal cavity, sinuses, spread to the throat, mouth, into the eye socket; Severe nosebleeds will be accompanied by infection. This condition affects the overall health of the patient, causing lack of oxygen, anemia, poor appetite, insomnia, making the patient skinny and pale.

In the case of a lack of means of hemostasis, resuscitation or when the tumor spreads into the skull, patients will experience severe complications, which can lead to death although this is not a malignant tumor.

In severe cases, fibroids also push the protruding eye out, or develop under the throat, push the palate, making it impossible for the child to breathe through the nasal route but to open their mouth to breathe, say a strangled nasal voice.

Until now, the world has not yet identified the cause of the disease; only know this is the growth of fibrous tissue and vascular system. The bigger the tumor, the higher the risk of death in the patient's surgery.

If detected early, the tumor is small, the doctor will use laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumor easily, the risk of bleeding is very small. In contrast, when the tumor is large, the risk of bleeding is very high, the doctor cannot operate by laparoscopy, but must then cut the facial bone to enter the nasal cavity to remove the tumor; later leave scars on the face.

Doctors recommend that when the boys have symptoms of nosebleeds many times, the amount of blood flowing is increasing, parents should take the child to the ear-nose-throat specialist for examination and treatment right away, avoiding to Large tumor growth.