Blood noses, how do they happen?
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they get too dry, they are severed, or they are irritated\n\ntoo dry- hot day, stop fastest\nsevered/damaged- hit in nose with football, hard to stop\nirritated- nose picking, somewhat easy to stop
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The most common causes are dryness (often caused by indoor heat in the winter) and nose picking. These two things work together--nose picking occurs more often when mucus in the nose is dry and crusty. \n\nOther, less common, causes include injuries, colds, allergies or cocaine use. Children may stick small objects up the nose. Older people may have atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries"), infections, high blood pressure and blood clotting disorders, or they may be taking drugs like aspirin that interfere with blood clotting. The cause of nosebleeds often can't be determined. \n\nTips on preventing nosebleeds include:\nkeep the lining of your nose moist: Gently apply a light coating of petroleum jelly (brand name: Vaseline) inside your nose with a cotton swab twice a day. \nKeep children's fingernails short to discourage nose picking. \nCounteract the drying effects of indoor heated air by using a humidifier at night in your bedroom. \nQuit smoking. Smoking dries out your nose and also irritates it. \nOpen your mouth when you sneeze.
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Dry air can cause nosebleeds. The air pulls the moisture out of the mucous membranes in your nostrils causing them to crack (It makes the walls of the veins thinner which contributes to the cracking effect.) and thus bleed.  Winter is the worse time for this...My husband has already had three this year. I use just a small amount of Carmex on a Q-Tip to moisturize his nose. I also put a small kettle of water on the stove on low to "rehydrate" the air versus expensive humidifiers. Just make sure you don't leave it on at night or that the kettle runs dry...\n\nStress can also cause nosebleeds. Elevated blood preasure can cause the vessels to burst. Also, when people are chronically stressed they don't eat well or hydrate properly which can cause chronic nosebleeds. Try taking a multivitamin, getting enough liquids, and adequate rest and relaxation. Combined with the "dry air" treatment I described above you shouldn't have a problem.\n\nIf the problem persists for more than a few months, happens more than three times a week, happens even after above treatments, is painful, or bleeds excessively and won't quite call your doctor as this may be a sign of something serious. I had an uncle who had a tumor in his sinus' that caused nosebleeds. If you are concerned you should have it checked out.
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they can cauterize your blood vessels in your nose, which will help prevent nosebleeds.  My brother gets them a lot, because we live in the desert, and the air is really dry.  One thing that helps is if you put a Q-tip into a jar of Vaseline (or maybe put Neosporin on it) and then swab the insides of your nose every morning and night.  It really helps.  I used to get nosebleeds a lot when I was on a medicine called Accutane (it dries your whole body out really bad -- it's for acne), and I used to do that.
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This is due to your bodies own response to the allergens, dirt, and dust in the air.  The more that you are exposed to--the more your nose has to "evacuate" through the production of nasal secretions (i.e. boogers).  \n\nThere are little hairs in your  nose called cilia that gather all the dust and dirt etc. (sort of like being swept together like a broom) and these particles are what make up the secretions, along with mucous your body produces to lubricate your nasal passage.  If you have a cold or sinus infection, your body is working overtime to evacuate that from your body as well--hence, major boogers!! :<
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No. The blood comes from your veighns, not your nose tissue.
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the nose has erectile tissue in it, and can sometimes cause a little tingly feeling in other areas when theres a sneeze.
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The sinus inside the nose builds up from the lack of warm oxygen. Thus, when you are in a cold area, you feel the clogging of your nose and eventually you will have snot.\n\nIf your nose is runny,\nAnd you think its funny,\nWell, it's snot.\n\n- ICE, Gaylord Palms FL
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What's normal??\nSome noses are squishy, some are hard and pointy...it's all "normal".
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Mucus and snot.  Also, things you breathe in through your nose.  If you are congested, you have many more boogers.
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whatever you do, don't take the ring out, if it is infected, the infection has to drain out. if you take the ring out it will swell and close. if you literally just pierced your nose it's not uncommon to have a bump. it's b/c your causing trauma to the tissue. it's your body's natural reaction to a foreign object. if it starts to swell, get red, or give off heat, then you  have an infection and need to see a doc for treatment( most likely antibiotics).
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Why do our noses run?\nOur cough reflex is not the only way we have to protect our airways. Most of the time we breathe through our noses. There are several folds and ridges at the back of the nose, on the way to the throat and windpipe, which are covered with mucous membranes. These membranes secrete mucus, a thin but slightly sticky liquid. As the air we breathe passes over these folds and ridges, it is humidified by evaporating water from the membranes and mucus, and many of the dust particles present in the inhaled air stick to the mucus so they cannot continue to the lungs. (Mucous membranes also line the windpipe and airways and help to trap smaller dust particles, and there are microscopic hairs, known as "cilia", on the surface of the lung's mucous membranes that continuously "sweep" the dirty mucus up through the airways and toward the windpipe where you can cough it all the way out.) \n\nSometimes, when our noses and lungs are irritated by something in the air, our mucous membranes will produce more mucus to help pick up and clean out the irritants. This can also happen when we breathe in something that we are allergic to: the allergic reaction of the mucus membranes to the offending material makes the membranes produce a lot more mucus, and a lot of extra water enters that mucus because of the allergic effect on the membranes. Unfortunately, the excess mucus and water makes you very uncomfortable and doesn't do any better as far as self-cleaning goes. \n\nViruses can also attack the mucus membranes and cause extra watering and extra mucus production. This, in fact, is how the common cold occurs. The virus is spread from person to person through droplets in the air or on hands: remember that there's a lot of extra liquid around with all the irritation, and a lot of that is sprayed into the air every time you cough or sneeze. Other people who breathe those droplets may be infected also, since the droplets will be caught on their mucus membranes. Once you've been infected by a particular cold virus you'll be immune to it forever, but there are hundreds of cold viruses around for you to catch, and there'll almost always be a few around that you haven't had yet. Since, as with the vast majority of viruses, there are no medicines we can use to kill cold viruses, when we get a cold we have to wait it out, possibly with medicines to relieve some of the misery.
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My daughter was 8 years old and getting real bad headaches and horrible nosebleeds.Took her to the Dr. he said it was a sinus infection gave her nose spray and a prescription she was fine after that.He said nosebleeds were caused by dryness in the air, bad sinuses, or getting hit in the nose one time or another.I would take them and get them checked but that could be what it is...
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"Boogers" are just phlegm. Your nose creates mucus (the "boogers") to gather all the dust and crap in your nose, and then it dries up and falls out.\n\nIt's sort of like your own personal maintenance system. \n\n♥
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Never lean your head back as this will cause blood to pool into your sinus cavity. Get some ice and wrap it in a teatowel, or even use the old frozen vege packs and wrap it in a teatowel. Move your head gently forward, get tissues and hold your nose gently near the nostrils, then put ice pack over your nose. It may take up to 15 minutes to stop bleeding entirely, if not see your GP. Don't get up and move around to much for at least an hour afterwards or go near anything hot as it will dilate your little vessels that burst in there and you'll have a nose bleed all over again. Causes may be from hitting it, picking it, heat, change of temperature, medication or change in medication, season's changing, PMT. Well hope you get better soon.
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The reason you have a running nose is because your nose is going through a stage where you just have to let it be on its own. Mines run all the time and sometimes I fon't even have a cold. So don't worry about it.
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a punch to the nose is 1 cause of  nosebleeds