dried blood up nose...

lately been waking up with dried blood up my nose...

No I haven't been picking it... No blood on my fingers... :rolleyes:

What could cause it...? being around smokers... Sleeping in a room thats too warm... TOO MUCH TEA?!?!?

I'll survive but its bugging me :frown:

Reply 1

-Kav-

This was happening to me for a while quite recently. While too much tea would be a common denominator, I think that I eventually found the problem to be a spot inside my nose that kept bleeding. I just sat it out until it cleared up.

Reply 2

tiempo

Well that could be the reason... Damn teenage skin ... Its even up my damn nose! :frown:

Reply 3

-Kav-

Hah, I know the feeling. I can't think of many other reasons for spontaneous rupturing of blood vessels in your nose. Sleeping in a room that's too warm does play merry hell with my throat/nose but I can't see it causing anything like this.

Reply 4

tritogeneia1

Room is too dry/too much dust? I'm always getting nosebleeds in libraries and old/second-hand bookshops for this reason (and it's very embarassing!)

Reply 5

ArVi

I get nosebleeds quite often too! But it has never (so far) happened in my sleep. Its probably a spot or something like Pineappolis said.

Reply 6

pixiepeep

You might've just bashed your nose slightly in the night. Problem with the nose is that there are a lot of very delicate veins behind a very thin layer of skin, so it bleeds very easily.

As long as you're not waking up with blood dribbling down your face I'd say there's nothing you really need to be worrying about.

When I was five I bashed my nose on my bunk bed railings and my nose bleed wouldn't stop. Turns out I'd hit a really week spot on my nose (I hadn't hit my nose that hard, wasn't painful) and I was going to have to have it cauterized (sp?). I still get them occassioanlly, and some really nasty ones where all of a sudden I've got blood just dripping out of my nose.

Think yourself lucky :P