Bleeding from the nose itself, as a rule, does not cause any concern. Especially when it comes to the baby, because very often the blood begins to flow as a result of the baby picking his nose. If this happened once, there is nothing to worry about. But regularly recurring bleeding can be a symptom of various diseases, including serious ones.
So, the baby has
nosebleed. The reason, which can be called the most common, is high blood pressure. In addition, it can be a variety of diseases of blood vessels and heart. Among them - vascular anomalies, atherosclerosis, heart defects.
Often, nosebleeds appear as a result of coagulopathy. This term in medicine can mean a number of diseases associated with a violation of normal blood coagulation. Hypo- and vitamin deficiencies, diseases of the circulatory system can be attributed to the same category. If the child has nosebleed, the cause is precisely coagulopathies, the bleeding is most likely to be quite plentiful, and it will be difficult to stop it in a short time.
Sometimes this phenomenon is observed with an increase in total body temperature. Often this happens during a period of acute infectious diseases. Nevertheless, even if the cause of the overheating is external (for example, when it comes to sun or heat stroke), nosebleeds can also occur. But in such situations, it is not the only symptom, and therefore to determine what happened to the child is much easier.
Does the child have nosebleeds? The reason for this can also be covered in various hormonal disorders. This is mainly applicable to adolescents who have entered puberty. Much less often, but still, a similar thing happens with young children.
Some people (including children) can hardly tolerate sudden changes in barometric pressure. Therefore, during a family trip to the mountains or scuba diving to the bottom of the sea, you need to be prepared for such a situation.
If a child has nosebleeds, the reason may be the frequent use of various nasal preparations that constrict blood vessels. It can be such means as "Naftizin", "Nazol", "Galazolin", "Nazivin", etc. As a rule, these drugs are prescribed by pediatricians during a runny nose, but for many people at the end of the course of treatment it is difficult to abandon their use, because at first they greatly facilitate breathing.
In addition, if a child has blood from the nose, this may be a symptom of various tumors (both benign and malignant) in the nasal cavity. Every year, thousands of children encounter formations - polyps. In early childhood, angiomas often occur - benign vascular tumors.
Sometimes it happens that nosebleeds are the exit of blood from another organ, for example, from the digestive tract or gastrointestinal tract. Of course, there is a whole list of hereditary diseases in the list of symptoms of which is blood from the nose.
As you can see, if there is blood from the nose of a child, the reasons can be very different, and some of them are very serious. Therefore, regularly occurring nosebleeds are a clear sign that you need to visit a doctor.