Frequent nosebleed

[Vivi1122]

Hi, my child is 5 years old. For past few months, she keep having nose bleed almost every day. Taken blood test, she was fine. Try ent, medication work for awhile but after stopping it comes back again. Any parents have kids that has frequent nose bleed. Can share what you do to prevent? She seem to have allergy issue as she sneeze every morning leading to nose bleed. Lost and worry . Seeking for advice .

[sharonkhoo]

@Vivi1122 My older daughter was like this (she’s now 29!). We also took her for checkups etc., and the final conclusion was that the blood vessel walls in her nose were thin, and that it would improve with age. It did improve, and by mid-Pr or so (can’t remember exactly now), she stopped having frequent nosebleeds. I can’t remember her having a nosebleed for years now.

In the meanwhile, these are the things we tried to limit bleeds:

• control sneezing by giving her daily antihistamines during tree pollen season (we were living overseas then); you should consult your GP before using antihistamines if you haven’t done so before. We couldn’t control the pollen as those trees were everywhere, but see if you can figure out whether your daughter’s sneezing is due to allergens, temperature changes or whatever, and try to reduce those?
• teach her not to dig her nose or be rough in cleaning her nose.
• in dry seasons (again, we were overseas), drink more water to stay hydrated.
• some people suggest a bit of vaseline in the nose to hydrate the mucous membrane - she didn’t like that we I don’t think we did it much.

Hope this helps.