Epistaksis

Nosebleed or in medical language is called epistaksis very common in children, however many parents are frightened and confused when her son was found to nosebleeds. Nosebleed itself is not a disease but a symptom of a disease, it means nosebleed can occur due to various causes of mild to severe.

Nosebleeds are symptoms of nasal bleeding that can occur due to local disorder for the nasal cavity or because of abnormalities that occur in other places of the body. Local disorder can be a trauma such as nose picking, fall, blow, foreign body in the nose, and irritation that stimulates the gas.

Another local cause is an infection of the nose and surrounding organs, tumors whether benign or malignant, sudden environmental changes such as changes in atmospheric pressure is suddenly on the pilots and divers, foreign objects into the nose without permission, and other causes not yet known with sure.

While abnormalities in other parts of the body that can cause nosebleeds, among others, heart disease and blood vessels such as high blood pressure and blood vessel disorders, blood disorders such as lower levels of platelets, blood clotting disorders, leukemia. Other disorders that cause bleeding, infection throughout the body such as dengue fever, hormonal disorders and congenital abnormalities.

It causes bleeding as described above are many and complex, which is the cause of both mild (requiring no further treatment) and that is a cause of severe alias should get special treatment.Therefore necessary that careful examination in patients with bleeding for treated carefully and appropriately.

Nosebleed treatment principle there are three that stopped the bleeding, prevent complications and prevent the recurrence of nosebleeds. For mild bleeding, stop the bleeding can be done by pressing both nostrils into the middle for a few minutes. For great bleeding and stopping the bleeding by pressing the nostrils fails then the patient should be taken to the doctor for further treatment.

Complications that often occur in patients with bleeding and anemia was shocked. Both these complications occurred due to a lot of bleeding that is not too late to get tertanggulangi or handling. Another complication is the drop in blood pressure resulting from blood loss a lot.
Do not worry, experts say 90 percent of nosebleeds will stop itself immediately, while 10 percent require special action. Origin is not too late to get treatment so severe complications did not occur.