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Nosebleeds

Called epitaxy’s and is usually caused by allergies, colds, nasal drops abuse, beatings or blowing your nose too hard. The nosebleeds can be a serious symptom if the victim has very high blood pressure, suffered a severe trauma or too intense.

WHAT TO DO

- In case of serious bleeding is to call an ambulance, while engaged in first aid.
- Lay the victim and tilt forward to that blood does not go down the throat.
- Cork with the thumb and index both nostrils for about ten minutes.
- Apply ice packs to your nose.
- Indicates that breathe through your mouth for the duration of compression and even within one hour of the cessation of bleeding.
- If it persists after ten or fifteen minutes of direct pressure, gently insert a sterile gauze or cloth, folded in the form of acordeon in the pit, you press and soaked at a time.
- Compress for five minutes.
- If you bleed a lot and the first gauze is not enough, you can add another but without removing the first, because if it has initiated a process of coagulation can reopen the vessel.
- Count the sponges that were introduced in order not to miss.

DO NOT

Do not move victim if you suspect trauma or severe cervical cranium.
Do not enter anything in the nose if nasal fracture is suspected.

Consuming less salacity’s. If a person is prone to suffer from nosebleeds should avoid foods with salacity’s, relatives of aspirin, which are present in coffee, and some fruits such as peaches, apples, all berries, grapes and prunes.

Controlling blood pressure. Hypertensives showed a tendency to have nosebleeds. Therefore, it recommends eating foods low in fat and low cholesterol.

Carefully choose oral contraceptives. Estrogen influences the production of mucus. Anything that alters the balance of estrogen (such as oral contraceptive use) in the woman’s body can cause temporarily increased propensity for nosebleeds. It is therefore recommended, if you suffer nosebleeds problems that women with the help of your doctor, choose the best alternative contraceptive for birth control.

No smoking. Smoking can cause dryness in the nasal cavity may contribute to the occurrence of nosebleeds. It is therefore advised to stop smoking if you suffer frequently from this type of ailment.

To stop bleeding, achieve full cure and, while preventing their recurrence, there are several natural home remedies that can be used as:

Folk Remedies

Remedy for nosebleeds # 1: Press your nose with your fingers (where the soft) and breathing slowly through your mouth.

Remedy for nosebleeds # 2: Apply cold cloths on his forehead and neck as the cold, especially on the cervical vertebrae, excites the sympathetic nervous system, causing the contraction of blood vessels.

Remedy for nosebleeds # 3: Soak cotton ball in lemon juice and place in nostrils. Change after half an hour.

Remedy for nosebleeds # 4: Boil one cup water in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add 3 tablespoons of shepherd’s purse. Cover the pan, let stand for 5 minutes and filter. Soak a cotton ball with this infusion, drain and form two balls and place inside the nostrils. Breathing through the mouth. Shepherd’s purse is a plant used since ancient times for its coagulant and astringent properties.

Remedy for nosebleeds # 5: Prepare a tea of nettles. To do this, you must take three tablespoons of dried nettle in a beaker of boiling water and let sit for 5 minutes. Soak a cotton ball with this brew and place it in the bleeding nostril.

Remedy for nosebleeds # 6: Plugging the bleeding side with cotton dipped in white vinegar. Acid in the vinegar gently cauterized.

Nosebleeds remedy # 7 Mix in 20 g quantities of cypress, shepherd’s purse, ponytail and anise, for half a liter of water. Boil for 3 minutes, leave to infuse and strain. Soak a cotton pad and apply to the nostril, keeping the head tilted back for a few minutes.

Nosebleeds Remedy # 8 Chop half an onion into small pieces and mix with chopped parsley before. Make a cap to be placed in the nostril that is bleeding. Then, rubbing his forehead with a cloth soaked in alcohol.

Nosebleeds Remedy # 9 Pour a handful of the plant called horsetail in a cup of water is boiling. Cover, drain and when cool, wash the nose with this dejection.

Remedy # 10 Heat nosebleeds several alfalfa leaves and place, as a poultice, at the entrance of the nostril that bleeding occurs.

Nosebleeds Remedy # 11 Put fresh mint leaves and washed in the nostrils and the blood will stop flowing.

Nosebleeds Remedy # 12 Boil 2 tablespoons of mint in a cup of water for 5 minutes. Take this tea which promotes blood clotting resulting immediate effective for nosebleeds.

Nosebleeds Remedy # 13 Place a handkerchief in the inside of the upper lip and gum on the same side where there is bleeding. Press lightly.