Bloody Nose

Date: Saturday, February 7, 2004
Time: 1:05 AM EST
Kristin Weatherford
email_address: sweetiekricket@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: United States

Ingredients: sterile gauze (not always needed)
Instructions: Contrary to popular belief, when you have a nose bleed, you should not tilt your head back, this opens your air passage and blood can get into your lungs or choke you, you should instead pinch the nose below the cartlege and tilt you head forward, if the bleeding does not stop, insert sterile gauze and continue applying pressure to the nose until bleeding stops.

Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Time: 7:27 AM EST
Loui

Ingredients: Vaseline
Instructions: Put vaseline up your nose and it will stop bleeding. I
had nose bleeds in the middle of the night when I was pregnant and my
husband told me to do this as his father was a boxer

!Email address: Crystal
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: One Cooper penny

Instructions: Put Cooper penny in your mouth and with your tongue hold it to the roof of your mouth.( For about 2 minutes) This will stop your nose bleed.
Please BE CAREFUL not to swallow the penny, I would just allow adults, not children to do this.

Danielle
United States

Most people say to put head back when your nose is bleeding.What you should actually do is take a paper towel or a wet rag an apply to bleeding nose,let it all drain out.After I let it drain out I never had another one, even though my nose bleed alot before I tried this!

Kathy Stabe
United States

I got bloody noses a lot as a kid and still get them sometimes. One time I had one that wouldn't stop. I've never had one so heavy before or since, and I was starting to worry it would never stop. My mother, who is a doctor, had me do the standard lay-down-on-the-bed-and-pinch-the-nose thing, but when it still wouldn't stop, she had me put ice on my nose and the back of my neck. I guess the ice on my nose slowed the blood (because of the cold), and the ice on my neck slowed the blood flow to my head.

Sunflower
Graduate Student (UCLA)
United States
Bloody Noses run in my family because of allergies (profuse sneezing/ blowing of the nose causes the interior tissue to dry out). My mother always taught us to bend forwards (bending backwards will cause--especially in children--nausea from swallowing the blood that runs down the throat) over a sink filled with ice water and repeatedly submerging our faces. Very quickly the blood begins to slow from the cold (the blood thickens) and will stop.

michiru_99 College Student The College of New Jersey USA