Nose bleeds often arise spontaneously without any warning signals. The bleeding can be a small trickle or a heavy gush, and can cause panic not only for you, but to the entire family as well. Your child will also get scared, looking at all the blood flowing from her nose.

More often than not, bleeding from the nose is a mild symptom, and does not need any qualified opinion or treatment.

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Some kids are born with increased fragility of blood vessels in the nose and have a tendency to bleed very often.

However, this tendency tends to improve with age, although many grow up to be adults who bleed from the nose once in a while.

Some of the common causes for nose bleeds include:

• Injury to the nose or other structures in the face and head area
• Picking the nose
• Blowing the nose too hard
• Foreign bodies in the nose
• Drying of the nose membranes
• Nasal and sinus infections
• High blood pressure (applicable more to adults)
• Tumours, polyps
• Clotting disorders
• Use of blood thinning drugs

Nasal First Aid

Since most nose bleed occur at home or at school, some first aid procedure is always required, before the child can be taken to a doctor.

First aid procedures include:

• Calming the child
  
  
• Making her sit upright with the head held forward
  
  
• If the blood trickles into the throat then the child should be told to spit it out