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To Control Bleeding From the Nose

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42.

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To Control Bleeding From the Nose

By P. M. Keller, M. D.

ELEVATE the arms to increase the resistance to the upward course of the blood. Apply cold cloths over the nose and brow and an ice-bag to the neck, or cold cloths to the neck extending around under the arm and reaching the large blood-vessels on the axilla. At the same time give a hot foot-bath.
As a spray within the nose use a weak solution of alum. Hot water may be slowly instilled into the nostril, or the nose may be plugged with cotton pledgets moistened in peroxid of hydrogen or extract of witch-hazel. Should the hemorrhage persist, then it would be necessary to plug the posterior as well as anterior portion of the nose, but this must be done by a physician.—P. M. Keller, M. D.