Bloody noses

pinch, lean head back. apply ice has always worked for me

Have your nose carterized (spelling?), that is what I did.

From my understanding your not suppose to lean back, as it just makes you swallow the blood. If your suceptable a humidifier might help and getting it cauterized will definately help, if the physician can find where your bleeding from.

I get these sometimes when my nose dries out (winter time with the heat on and drier air).

When you get one, roll up a piece of toilet paper or kleenex and twist/jam it in there as tightly as you can, and leave it in there for 5 minutes or so. The direct pressure will stop the bleeding pretty quickly. After a few minutes, carefully twist it out (seems less likely to re-open it). If it's still bleeding, repeat. Then be careful not to blow it so hard.

Also, you might consider using saline nasal spray a few times a day to keep it hydrated, and putting something like Aquaphor or another petroleum-based ointment up there to keep the membrane from getting dried out, especially overnight (that's when it happens to me anyway).

This is good. When we would get nosebleeds during basketball games, or any other time really, we'd do this. It's a man's tampon. Works wonders.
Sometimes though if your nose is bleeding really hard, you'll bleed through 3-4 of these kleenex. Sometimes I just get pissed of messing with it and just go to the sink and blow my nose for however long it takes until the bleeding stops. It sounds really gross, I know, but I generally don't get the rebound nosebleeds the next day or anything after that.

I'm for the previously mentioned techniques and family members have used them all in the past to various results. You're all gonna laugh/scoff at what I'm going to suggest as a technique that has worked for me and my younger brother since we were we tots in the 60's and works for my kids now. A copper key threaded by a piece of string. Hang it around your neck so that the key rests on your chest at the crest of your breast bone and then recline and lay on your back so that it rests flat on your chest.

Don't know why it works but my mom got this from my grandmom(and her mom, my great grand mom, was an empath in Georgia) and it has never fails to stop our nose bleeds within 5 minutes. A few months ago the nurse at my daughter's school called me to ask that I pick her up because she was having a bad nosebleed. When I got my daughter home she told me about the cotton in the nose etc that the nurse used. I put the key and sneaker string around her neck that we keep in her top drawer and after 5 minutes I asked if she was better, she wasn't. She was sitting up watching TV. I told her to lay down and within 2 minutes it stopped.

I told her that the nurse would ask what we did. I also told her not to get upset when the nurse didn't believe her. Anecdotal, psychosomatic, or energetic whatever the reason/cause, this always works for us. Maybe some of you knowledgeable in wiccan/druid/southern remedies can explain the copper-blood-body connection. Let the ridicule begin!

J's advice is pretty dead on. One important question, however, is that when you get a cut or scrape elsewhere on your body does it take long for it to stop bleeding and heal, too?

gentlemen, I had this bleeding-nose problem quite often. I got tired of it, once, even I was with some girl... and it started bleeding, what is the worst thing that could happen, is bleeding nose at work,school,university... well in public places in general, it is quite emberassing.

So I tried various things as you have mentioned, but actually only one thing was succesful. The problem was somehow connected with rather "thin nasal capiliars" sort of thing, so my doctor and pharmacist in a local drugstore advised me to use "askorutinas" pils, ( it is called in my native language that way, I suppose it is called ascorutin or smth like that), don`t know if you guys have that stuff in us, but in general it is vitamin C with some more ingredients... supposingly ascorutin.

What is interesting nose bleeding stopped. Ahh and one more thing, I started smoking and after quiting smoking, nose bleeding disappeared.

Well I don`t know if I had wrote any suitable information to you, yet I hope it helps you to find a perfect solution. good luck!

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I only bring it up in case it might be a clotting issue such a vit. k deficiency. 95% of the time it's just a case of dry nostrils meeting thin capilaries but if you had noticed general bleeding problems then it would be cause for concern.

I have had the same problem as breakfasteatre my entire life. The kleenex wadded up the nose DOES NOT WORK for those of us that have major problems with nose bleeds. My nose can bleed so strongly that it can soak through 200 kleenexes compressed into a single wad in seconds. If you get chronic nosebleeds, as Socal2NYC suggested nasal cauterization is usually the only remedy.

Just curious, do those of you that get frequent nosebleeds suffer from high blood pressure? I get a lot of nosebleeds as well, and my blood pressure is relatively high for my age (27). On some days I measure ~125/85. I'll just add that I do the pinch/tilt forward remedy as well. When pinching, I make sure to never ease up on the pressure, not even when changing the tissue. Maybe I'll try the copper key thing one of these times. But I hate having to spit up blood.

Just in case anyone (the topic-poster for example) is actually considering cauterisation - be careful:

I also had this done as a child to stop my persistant nosebleeds. Some years later, I went through another period of persistent nosebleeds and so took myself off to the docter and cheerfully asked for another cauterisation... He looked a little concerned and explained that 'we don't really do that any more'; cauterisation is effectively just sealing blood vessels by burning them up; which actually increases the pressure on other blood vessels in your nose. Whether it gets done or not seems to be an issue of medical fashion that changes over time and depending which country you're in.

Yeesh.

I got a prescription for some things that are basically long matchsticks with a bit of (IIRC) silver nitrate at the end, which are used to chemically cauterize small wounds. I got them for canker sores (they didn't work very well for that), but I wonder if you could get a few of those for emergencies. It hurts like a mother, but I imagine heat cautery doesn't feel real nice either.