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Frequent Nosebleed
6 year old son has frequent Nosebleeds, it started when he was 18 months old, at first it occurred rarely but the frequency increased later on, he would have Nosebleed once a month, recently it occurs more often, sometimes it happens when he is sleeping ( not because of nose picking) he doesn't have cold at the time , it occurs randomly , sometimes it is a few drops, but sometimes he has a bit of heavy bleeding, we have shown him to ,2 ENT surgeon, they said it was not concerning and told us to apply neosprin, is this normal? plz advise
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Dr. Jaimini Thakkar
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
6 yrs exp
Anand
common cause will be finger nail injury.
nasoclear saline nose drops 2 drops 3 times a day.
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Dr. Gladson Guddappa Uchil
Allergist/Immunologist
26 yrs exp
Bangalore
Please bring your child to my clinic. He needs a thorough clinical workup to confirm the cause of the bleeding.
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Dr. Saiyad Saif Naziruddin
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
7 yrs exp
Raichur
Get the endoscopy done to rule out any other thing
If it is normal
Use saline nasal spray
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Dr. Satguru Saran Singh
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
5 yrs exp
Bareilly
Most common cause of nose bleed at this age finger nail trauma, cut ur child nail properly, and tell him not put finger in nose, it bleeding occur do trotters methods
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