My 9 yr old step-daughter gets nose bleeds a couple of times a month, started with a couple of times a year, and it seems to becoming more frequent. It will start bleeding at different times of the day, sometimes a blood clot glob will come out. This glob, too is more frequent. It will start bleeding for no reason(that we know of), she will wake up with a bloody nose sometimes.
Her doctor shrugs it off as just an allergy and prescibed flonas-nose spray which made it worse. When it bleeds, it bleeds a lot-heavily until I have her sitting a bit forward, pinching her nose, then it stops. She says she feels fine when it does bleed, appears to be fine. But its frequency is concerning her dad. He feels something is seriously wrong and wants to take her to a specialist.
Why does this happen, how do we stop it, and who do we see about this?
2006-08-19
22:49:32
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jana808
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