nose bleeds

can anyone tell me is the fact that i can have intermittent nose bleeds for no reason due to the amount of steroid meds with being on pred as well as top dose inhaled steroids i am taking at the mo or am i just difficult like my con told me when he admitted me last time and i didn't make a great improvement.

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Hi Katherine

How are you? when I was first diagnosed with asthma I used to get quite a few nosebleeds and the doc said it might be somethin to do with coughing alot, cause at the time I had cough-variant asthma

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Hi Katherine my daughter is 6 and has severe asthma. She always has nosebleeds. Her consultant at Great Ormond street said it was due to pressure from coughing and the fact that she is on oxygen day & night at min doesn't help either. Apparently steriods also cause easy bleeding so this may be the reason .Nikki xx

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As said by others hunny is prob down to a) steroids and b) coughing, as your nose has many small capikkaries and these can rupture under the elightest pressure ie coughing. sorry mo quick fix/

love andrea xx

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Oxygen via nasel cannula will cause nose bleeds. I am OK with 2 litres but anything above is a real problem.

Bex

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Bex have you tried vasoline works for me as on 4litres, doesnt stop them completely but defo helps.

andrea xxx

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Andrea if you read the blurb from the O2 suppliers it says no petroleum based products like vaseline.

Bex

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oops!!!!!!! sudocrem and e45 worked too are they ok Bex?

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I suddenly started getting nosebleeds when I had to up my inhaled steroid dose. My asthma nurse doesn't believe there's any link but as I'd not had a proper nosebleed since I was a kid & had two full on, streaming ones that lasted about 20 minutes the first two days after increasing my dose I think it's pretty likely! I now hold my nose while I'm doing my steroids so that I can't breathe the steroids out through it. I do find this stops me getting quite enough breath through & I have to stop for a couple of breaths between doses or I get a bit light headed!