What may increase your risk for problems from a nose injury or nosebleed?
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What may increase your risk for problems from a nose injury or nosebleed?
Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medicines, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your health professional.
Conditions
- Younger than age 3 months
- Older than age 60
- A problem or condition present since birth
- Previous injury to the nose or face
- Previous surgery to the nose area
- Severe malnutrition or vitamin deficiencies
- Structural problems, such as nasal polyps or a deviated septum
- Surgery to remove the spleen
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or withdrawal
- Exposure to some chemical fumes
- Inhaled illegal drugs, such as amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cocaine
- Smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke
- Overuse of nonprescription nasal sprays or inhalers
Medicines
- Antihistamines, decongestants, and medicated nasal sprays, such as steroid nasal sprays
- Antipsychotic medicines, such as chlorpromazine, haloperidol, and thioridazine
- Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Blood-thinning medicines, such as warfarin (Coumadin) and heparin
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone
- Medicines to prevent organ transplant rejection
- Medicines used to treat cancer (chemotherapy)
- Radiation therapy
- Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline, nortriptyline, and doxepin
- Viagra
Diseases
- Allergic rhinitis
- Anemia
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Cancer
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Diabetes
- Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia
- Hemophilia
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
- Inherited bone disease
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Lupus
- Multiple sclerosis
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Seizure disorders
- Sickle cell disease
- Vascular disease
- von Willebrand's disease
- Wegner's granulomatosis
Credits
| Author | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Charles M. Myer, III, MD - Otolaryngology |
| Last Updated | April 20, 2007 |
| Last updated: | April 20, 2007 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Charles M. Myer, III, MD - Otolaryngology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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