nose bleeds (please read details before answering)?

Question by shepdawg5000: nose bleeds (please read details before answering)?
I have had nose bleeds since I was about 6 years old. It always seems to happen at the change of the seasons when I get them. Sometimes, I have it where they last a minute, other times they can last up to half an hour. I know how to stop them when I get them, but I would like to know a permenant solution to prevent them altogether weather that be surgery (as a last resort) or preferably some natural solution. Also, I do not take multi-vitamins(yet) and I have a humifier on when I am at home. It seems I get a nose bleed once I leave my house and when I am at work (I work in a plastic injection molding plant). Whenever there is reduced humidity, my whole body gets dry and fells like my body is dehydrated even though I drink about a gallon of water a day, not including the two glasses of o.j. and glass of milk or two. Please help!

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Answer by mlgable
Your nosebleeds seem to be from the dry air since you state they are seasonal mostly. Use a humidifier in every room in your house/apartement and use vaseline aka petroleum jelly in your nostrils several times a day to help keep them moist. Keep a small tube in your pocket to use at work since the air is probably dry there too. You do need to get on a good multivitamin and a good antioxidant supplement to keep your immune system healthy.

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One Response to “nose bleeds (please read details before answering)?”

  • Doc8:

    It sounds like hemistaxis due to allergic rhinitis. See an allergist and an otolaryngologist.