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Is this a normal amount of blood from nose? Over a week now
Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: 8 hours ago | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Hello @cmx. My experience with winter dryness has been similar to yours. The more we burn our wood stove, the drier it is. Once I start seeing blood, it usually continues unless I keep up with the saline spray and humidity. If you are still having symptoms like this despite your preventative measures, then I would see your doctor. Facial pain or pressure would indicate sinus infection is possible. Sometimes a virus will leave our sinuses full and then a bacterial infection can start. If you are seeing more and more blood, I would certainly get it checked out.
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Thanks for the advice. I carefully blew my nose this morning after not blowing my nose for over a day, and only saw a few specks of blood this time. It was mostly yellow and brown gunk like I get from time to time. I have faith this is a sign the cut or whatever it is is improving. This is despite not using humidifiers for the last 2 days (the humidifiers have a lot of brown gunk inside so prob won't use them until I get around to cleaning them as I understand that could cause a respiratory infection), just Xlear nasal spray typically 2-3 times a day with 2-3 pumps each time (I hope my nose doesn't become physically dependent on this; from what I read it shouldn't). Again I don't feel any other symptoms such as facial pain/pressure etc, except for, sometimes, a feeling of something in the left nostril which I assume is the cut/scab or dried snot from not blowing my nose for a while. If the bigger amounts of blood return I will plan to see a doc.