Yesterday morning, Ms. Zhao woke up and found that her 6-year-old son had blood on his pillow. Ms. Zhao freaked out, and then saw the blood in her son’s nostrils before reacting, her son had a nosebleed. Children, the elderly winter easy nosebleed similar nosebleed patients. The reporter learned from Xiamen major hospitals ENT department, recently because of nosebleeds in the number of consultations than usual increased by two to three percent. “Outpatient clinic a morning will receive five or six patients with nosebleeds.” Xiamen City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine ENT Chen Zhaoyu attending physician introduced, the elderly and children are the high incidence of nosebleeds in winter. Dry weather, easy to cause nasal dryness, nasal itching and other symptoms, children’s nasal mucosa is relatively fragile, if the hand to pick the nose or rub the nose, easy to damage the mucosa, small blood vessels will rupture bleeding. In addition, winter is also the high incidence of allergic rhinitis, repeated sneezing, blowing the nose is also likely to lead to rupture of the nasal mucosa bleeding. It is worth noting that the elderly nosebleed is also a sign of arteriosclerosis, hypertension and other systemic diseases. Elderly people’s blood vessels are fragile and prone to rupture and bleeding, especially when blood pressure suddenly rises, especially prone to uncontrollable nosebleeds. If you add the stimulation of tobacco, alcohol and spicy food, picking the nose, external impact or change of position during sleep and other triggers, more likely to occur nosebleeds. Nasal dryness and itching with eye ointment coated Dr. Chen said that if the nasal cavity repeatedly bleeding or nasal discharge with blood, can not be taken lightly, so as not to delay the delay in treatment. Be sure to go to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology for nasal endoscopy to rule out nasal malignant tumors. After the doctor ruled out nasal tumors and other lesions, the usual prevention of nosebleeds can start from the nasal cavity “moisturizing”. When the nasal cavity is dry and itchy, don’t dig your nostrils with your hands, and don’t rub your nose, but use erythromycin ophthalmic ointment or gentamycin ophthalmic ointment to smear the nasal cavity. Diet, should pay attention to eat less spicy, fried and other easy to cause “fire” food, less alcohol, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, if the work environment has dust or irritating gases, should wear masks or masks for proper protection. Avoid emotional fluctuations, overwork, but also to avoid the nose by external impact. What should I do if my nose bleeds? When a child has a nosebleed, many parents let the child tilt his or her head up or even swallow the blood clot, which is wrong. Dr. Chen said, tilting the head when the nosebleed, the blood will flow down the nasal passage to the throat, when the bleeding is fierce, easy to choke into the trachea and lungs, resulting in respiratory obstruction caused by asphyxia and death; if the nosebleed is swallowed into the stomach, it will stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in gastric discomfort and even vomiting.