oh no! nosebleed! oh no!

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it wont stop.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I once got a nosebleed on the tube and until a kind pair of Japanese tourists offered me a tissue I was stemming the flow of blood with a pair of my then-girlfriends' (clean) pants. I understand that this may have looked quite odd at the time but it was the only thing we had available.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

its still going, like a tap, i feel a bit easy oasy.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

dolly up some lollipops then old son.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry, Chris, the Japanese are very used to watching grown men holding girls' underthings to their noses. (But bloody ones, oh the potential for misinterpretation)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Halloween morning, I'm six. Mother finds me in bed in pool of own blood, unconscious. Pints of the stuff everywhere, through sleep-time nosebleed. Go to hospital, where the offending busted vein is cauterised (yeow) and I'm booked in for the night. Very cross at missing trick-or-treat/costumes as it's my turn to be The Witch that year (there's a 'witch' costume, black clothes hooray, and a 'hobo' costume of dad's old painting clothes and sister and I literally have fistfights over who wears what). Have lost loads of blood so drift off to sleep while on a drip. When I wake up, bed is absolutely covered in fun-size candy bars.

To stop your nosebleed, press very firmly against the bony part of nose, resting the finger so that you close the nostril too. Tilt your head right back and hold the position for two minutes. The bleeding should stop. If you happen to spit up a huge clot of blood in this time frame, good - that means the nosebleed has been stopped. If you don't stop the bleeding after the first two minutes, hold for another two and that should sort it.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

also, ice might be effective in stemming blood flow.

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

nosebleed techno ronan ?

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything suzy says is exactly right except for tilting your head back - if you do that the blood just goes right down your throat and into your stomach. Yuck. Maybe you like this taste/sensation. I do not. An alternative is to keep your head normally inclined but with a hefty wodge of tissue paper under nostril, or you can stand over a sink.

Like suzy I had constant nosebleeds when I was little and would often wake up to a pillowcase covered in blood. It would just start going like a tap. Suzy for a second I interpreted "fun-size candybars" as your huge spit-up bloodclots and I almost chundered.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

also wave an open bottle of vinegar under your nose, or soak your tissue in it and then hold under nose. Only thing that stops them for me, and I have them when the weather changes or I change altitude. The doctors said it wouldn't bleed so much if I take my finger out.

― Queen G (Queeng), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i get lots of nosebleeds and yes, suzy is otm.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I get nosebleeds a lot. Often at very inopportune moments, and not really brought on by anything in particular. Very irritating. Nearly as annoying as hiccups. I sometimes wake up in the morning with the inside of my nose encrusted with dry blood. Ugh!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

It's stopped thank god, I left the computer earlier, it was that bad! Sadly not nosebleed techno.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

As kids me & my best friend would get those home chemistry kits & mix everything in them with household chemicals & boil them on a bunsen burner/no 8 wire/golden syrup lid contraption.
I always, always got nosebleeds & never understood why.

(& suzy is OTM, obv)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Herm. No, Suzy isn't really OTM. I used to get daily nosebleeds, these days it's only weekly or so.

Tilting your head back is the worst thing you can do.
Pinching the bony part of your nose always struck me as odd when people told me to do it - I pinch my nostrils closed and that works far, far better, as well as being less fiddly and avoiding drippage.
Stuffing a piece of tissue up the offending nostril is classic.
Running cold water over the offending nostril helps a lot too, especially if the nosebleed is related to overheating, too much caffeine, or stress.
Blowing out the clot after the bleeding has stopped has never caused the nosebleed to start up again for me.
I can offer advice for weeks about this topic, since I've tried every method under the sun.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tilting your head back is the worst thing you can do."

This is absolutely right.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

but use vinegar you freaks.

― Queen G (Queeng), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ralph Wiggam to thread!

― petra jane (petra jane), Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

:-'(

― ☯ t (wins), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)

aargh AGAIN

SERIOUSLY

― On Being Blue (Da Ba Dee): A Philosophical Inquiry (wins), Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:25 (twelve years ago)

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