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Q. My daughter has excessive nosebleeds. Do you have any herbal or home remedy suggestions?
A. You may want to start in the pharmacy. There are three products to consider: Nosebleed QR (www.biolife.com and 800-722-7559), NasalCEASE (www.nasalcease.com and 800-650-6673) and Seal-On (www.seal-on.com).
As for home remedies, our favorite would be to put a wad of cold keys down the back under the shirt. We cannot explain why this might work, but we have heard from many readers that it is amazingly effective:
“When I was a little girl in rural North Carolina, my daddy knew to stop nosebleeds when someone in the family had one. He put a bunch of car keys down her back. The nosebleed stopped pronto. He was uneducated but the remedies that he used worked for us.”
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When I read the article regarding nosebleeds, it set an alarm off. I think nosebleeds can be a sign of thin blood.
When I was in high school, I contracted Mono, and my platelet count plummeted. It’s called ITP, and I have since learned that I am susceptible to it. MANY things over the counter can thin the blood or cause platelets to lose their stickiness (i.e. omega 3 supplements, aspirin, flax seed oil, to name a few).
I believe that anyone who has nosebleeds regularly or excessive bruising should be aware of the possibility of a blood issue. I suppose I am keen on the topic because of my past experiences, but I do think that many people are ignorant to the effects of some OTC and seemingly good-for-you supplements and drugs. If your blood’s not clotting, watch what you’re ingesting!
Fyi, symtoms of ITP are following (from the itppeople.com web site)
Most people with ITP experience spontaneous bruising. Some find they have petechiae (pe-TEEK-ee-ay), tiny red dots on the skin caused by broken blood vessels or leaks in a capillary wall. If your platelet count is very low you may have other bleeding symptoms including blood blisters on the inside of your cheeks or blood in your urine or stool. In general, the more bleeding symptoms you have, the lower your platelet count.
I had virtually daily nosebleeds from the time I was a toddler until the end of high school. The explanation was something about lack of capillary formation in my nose at birth? I'm middle-aged, and we lived in a rural area so I don't necessarily value the medical opinion from then... Anyway after sitting in the nurse's office daily the best solution I found was placing an ice pack or frozen peas on the back of my neck. This appeared to help the clotting when my nose failed to do so with simple pressure. At its worst, I simulataeously did ice on the bridge of the nose too.
A friend with similar experiences tried cauterization [she was anemic too]--it was not effective at all.
My father would roll a narrow strip of toilet paper about an inch wide, into a rod about the thickness of a pencil and place it under the center of my upper lip. Within a minute or so the bleeding would stop. After about 10 minutes I would take the paper out, throw it away and go out to play.
I don't understand why, but eating the white inner part
of an orange peel every day or so will stop the nosebleeds. This came from an old country doctor, years ago.
Another solution is NoseBudd - combines cold therapy and the pressure of your fingers to help stop a nosebleed. It was designed by someone w/ hemophilia, and is one of the most popular helps for nosebleeds in schools.