What causes nosebleeds? The inside of your nose is lined with tiny, fragile blood vessels located close to the surface, and when they're injured, they bleed easily. Nosebleeds can be alarming, but ...

Posterior nasal packing and sphenopalatine artery ligation are substantially more invasive techniques, each associated with several serious potential complications, and are reserved for very severe ...

Nosebleeds can feel alarming, with the surge of blood dripping onto clothes or sheets and the handfuls of tissues used to stop it turning crimson. But a bloody nose, also known as epistaxis, usually ...

You can stop a nosebleed by sitting upright, pinching just below the bony part of your nose, and holding pressure for five minutes. Applying an ice pack or using a nasal spray like Afrin may also help ...

Nosebleeds, like noses, come in varied forms, and the number of sufferers is growing as the population ages. Millions of them rejoice at this time of year, when the most frequent cause — winter’s dry, ...

When blood is suddenly streaming out of your nostrils, it can be hard not to panic — but if you know how to stop a nosebleed, the situation becomes a lot less stressful. Even if you aren’t a “person ...

Epistaxis requiring clinical care occurred in 32.97 per 10,000 hypertensive patients, compared with 22.76 per 10,000 matched controls without high BP (adjusted HR 1.47, 95% CI 1.30-1.66), according to ...