How to care for nose bleeding due to high blood pressure?

In fact, many people don’t know that high blood pressure can cause nose bleeding. This phenomenon is called high blood pressure nosebleed. It can cause a lot of complications in the nose, including lesions around the nose, coupled with blood vessel contraction and expansion, it is easy to have intermittent bleeding. In normal times, you should pay attention to dietary supplements, reasonable adjustments, and timely observation and corresponding inspections.

Precautions for high blood pressure nose bleeding

Hypertensive nosebleed. In fact, intermittent and repeated massive nosebleeds caused by hypertension are common complications of hypertension. Hypertensive nosebleeds are common clinical emergencies, with the characteristics of sudden and fierce onset, large amount of bleeding, and easy complications. There are many influencing factors. You should know that nosebleed is a common disease in otolaryngology. It has many causes. It can be caused by local factors in the nasal cavity or by systemic diseases. Hypertension is a common systemic disease. Because the blood vessels of hypertensive patients constrict and the fragility of the blood vessel walls increases, it is more likely to cause bleeding.

When hypertensive patients experience hypertensive epistaxis/hypertensive nosebleeds, they should pay attention to the following points:

(1) Avoid mental stress: According to clinical observations, many patients with nosebleeds experience abnormal emotions such as fright or anger, and it is often a sign of high blood pressure. However, bleeding can buffer blood pressure and prevent bleeding in other internal organs, especially cerebral hemorrhage. From this point of view, as long as the amount of bleeding is not too much, it is not a bad thing. At this time, you should avoid mental stress, otherwise it will cause your blood pressure to rise sharply and aggravate bleeding.

Precautions for high blood pressure nose bleeding

(2) Local hemostasis: The patient sits with the head tilted back slightly. Apply a towel soaked in cold water to the forehead and nose to cause local blood vessels to contract and stop bleeding. At the same time, pinch both sides of the nose with your fingers for 10 to 15 minutes. If bleeding continues after releasing the finger, you can use a cotton pad soaked in 1% ephedrine saline or 0.1% epinephrine to insert it into the nasal cavity to stop the bleeding.

(3) If the amount of bleeding is large and the condition is critical, the patient should be sent to the hospital immediately and ask the doctor to use treatments such as cauterization, freezing or gauze packing.

(4) Lowering blood pressure: Using antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure can also help stop bleeding. It is important to lower blood pressure slowly to prevent lowering blood pressure too quickly, which can lead to insufficient blood supply to the internal organs, slow blood flow, and blood clots, which can cause angina pectoris, renal damage, and ischemic stroke.

Regarding the situation of nose bleeding due to high blood pressure introduced above, we suggest that everyone should understand its cause in life, so that we can know what factors cause nose bleeding due to high blood pressure. We know that sometimes getting angry can cause nose bleeding, and patients with high blood pressure are more prone to nose bleeding.