Nosebleeds are common and harmless in pregnancy. If the bleeding is severe and incessant, you might need to seek medical help.
Causes of nosebleeds
👃Expanding blood vessels
When you’re pregnant, your blood vessels🩸 enlarge and are prone to breaking and bleeding more easily. Occasional blood streaming from the tissues lining the nose is very common and isn’t cause for alarm.🙆♀️
👃Dry condition
Lack of moisture in the air makes the membranes inside your nose dry out, resulting in bleeding.🩸 Cold weather🥶, air-conditioned rooms, and airline cabins also share the same dry condition and make you bleed more easily.
👃Injury or infections
If you have an injury in the nose area, sinus infection or allergies, you tend to nosebleed.🩸 If the nosebleed is accompanied with medical conditions such as high blood pressure or clotting disorder, you must seek medical help immediately.👩⚕️
👃Nasal medicines
If you use chemical irritant compounds such as nasal medicines or drugs💊, you may get nosebleeds when you spray them. Spraying or snorting too harshly can also hurt the barrier of your nose, leading to nosebleed.😟
Ways to stop a nosebleed
👃Sitting posture
Don’t lie down or tilt your head back because you might end up swallowing blood, getting nauseous if the blood enters your lung. Sit down and lean forward a little bit.🪑
Use your thumb and index finger to firmly compress the soft lower part of your nose.✌️ Breathe through your mouth and squeeze your nostrils closed for 10 to 15 minutes.
👃Ice
You can apply ice to constrict the blood vessels and stop the bleeding. Hold a cold pack on the bridge of your nose and wait for a while.🧊