Nosebleed

CAUSES – Physical injury, excessive dryness causing the nasal surface to crack, scratching with the fingernail, blowing the nose hard, sudden change in atmospheric pressure.

TREATMENT:

Anterior nosebleeds (from the nose itself) are most common:

•  Blow out the clots, then sit in a chair and lean forward without tilting the head back. (If you lie down or lean backward, you will swallow blood.) Put a small piece of wet cotton (or cloth) in the nose and pinch lightly on it for 5 minutes. Then apply cold washcloths or an ice pack to the nose, cheek, and neck. (Another suggestion is to have them lightly sniff cold water with a little salt or lemon juice added.)

•  Then apply vitamin E oil (or petroleum jelly) to the inside of the nose. Lie back and rest for a time. If the nosebleeds are serious enough to warrant it, rest as much as you can for two days.

•  The rupture in the blood vessel that caused the nosebleed requires 7-10 days to completely heal. When the bleeding stops, a clot forms and then becomes a scab. Do not pick it loose.

•  Make sure you are getting enough vitamin K in the diet. It is found in all dark greens.

•  Be sure to eat foods with Vitamin C, Calcium, Magnesium, Alfalfa, and Vitamin E.

•  When the nose dries out excessively, nosebleed can occur. Try increasing the humidity in the room. Consider purchasing a humidifier. Smoking dries out the nasal membranes.

•  Medicinal blood thinners can cause nosebleeds. Blood thinner drugs are what you find in D-Con rat poison.

•  White Oak Bark (or bayberry or ephedra sinica) tea is an astringent. It can be snuffed up the nose before inserting the cotton.

•  A little cayenne can be swallowed in some water. This will draw blood away from the head to the stomach.

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS:

• Dress properly, having the extremities UNCOVERED is not good…..wear long sleeves and legs covered.

•  Those with frequent nosebleeds should take extra iron. It is needed to make hemoglobin. Rutin is also needed.

•  Avoid oral contraceptives. Anything that changes estrogen levels can make you more prone to nosebleeds.

HYDRO—Here are several treatments for nosebleed, discussed in the author's book, Water Therapy Manual (see book store):

•  Contrast Bath to the Hand or Arm. Two very deep pails may be used. The hot water should be as hot as can be borne (p. 114).

•  Hot Foot Bath. This can also be used to stop a nosebleed (p. 116).

•  Cold Plantar Douche. This is a cold water spray to the bottom of the feet (p. 166).

•  Ice Bag to back of the neck; short hot Fomentations to the face (p. 218).

•  Ice to the back of the neck; Hot Compress over face; ice to hands; elevate hands to vertical position, if necessary; Hot Foot Bath or Hot Leg Pack; very Hot Nasal Douche (p. 224).

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