Dry Winter Nose...HELP!

[WhistlePig]

I got my first nosebleed of the season this morning, one of many to come. I
know it's the dry air from having the heat on (we have a forced-air heat
pump). I bought a humidifier but that isn't helping. Last year I kept it a
cold 62 degrees inside all winter which helped a little but this year with a
new baby in the house I have to keep it warmer which means suffering for
my poor nose. I use saline spray but that doesn't help much either.
Anybody have any good remedies?

[Captain Rooster]

by a humidifier for your room ... you'll sleep better and not be so bleedy.

[UnknownPD]

<font size="2">Get the generic variety of &quot;Ocean&quot; it's a saline nose spray. Cheap, no side effects and works like magic</font>

[ChrisTheCop]

WebMD concurs with the Rooster on this. Humidifier should do the trick.

[FUNKMAN]

<p>drink alot more water?&nbsp; i hear this helps </p><p>just not right before bed or else you have to get up alot...</p>

[BoondockSaint]

You should buy a humidifier.

[SatCam]

I'd suggest purchasing a humidifier

[Fez4PrezN2008]

<p>Just tell everyone that you're a hockey player</p><p><img src="http://www.andrearosengallery.com/files/0163ff71.jpg" border="0" width="266" height="200" /></p><p>You'll get a lot more street cred than just a wimpy dry nose story <img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smoke.gif" border="0" width="46" height="20" /></p>

[WhistlePig]

<strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br>I got my first nosebleed
of the season this morning, one of many to come. I know it's the dry air
from having the heat on (we have a forced-air heat pump). I bought a
humidifier but that isn't helping. Last year I kept it a cold 62 degrees
inside all winter which helped a little but this year with a new baby in the
house I have to keep it warmer which means suffering for my poor nose.
I use saline spray but that doesn't help much either. Anybody have
any good remedies?<p></p>

Any other suggestions I haven't tried? Maybe I just have an uber sensitive
nose and am doomed to suffer.

[johnniewalker]

This sounds gross but i used to snort vaseline when I was little to stop nosebleeds.

[Fez4PrezN2008]

<strong>johnniewalker</strong> wrote:<br />This sounds gross but i used to snort vaseline when I was little to stop nosebleeds. <p>Wouldn't that get your $20 bill all greasy?</p>

[PapaBear]

Get a bottle of saline nasal spray. Not the stuff for a stuffy nose... It's just saline. It helps me when my nose is dry.

[HBox]

<strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br />I got my first nosebleed of the season this morning, one of many to come. I know it's the dry air from having the heat on (we have a forced-air heat pump). <strong>I bought a humidifier but that isn't helping.</strong> Last year I kept it a cold 62 degrees inside all winter which helped a little but this year with a new baby in the house I have to keep it warmer which means suffering for my poor nose. <strong>I use saline spray but that doesn't help much either.</strong> Anybody have any good remedies?<p>&nbsp;</p> Any other suggestions I haven't tried? Maybe I just have an uber sensitive nose and am doomed to suffer.<p>You should try a humidifier. And if that doesn't work, try a saline nose spray.</p>

[PapaBear]

<strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br />I got my first nosebleed of the season this morning, one of many to come. I know it's the dry air from having the heat on (we have a forced-air heat pump). <strong>I bought a humidifier but that isn't helping.</strong> Last year I kept it a cold 62 degrees inside all winter which helped a little but this year with a new baby in the house I have to keep it warmer which means suffering for my poor nose. <strong>I use saline spray but that doesn't help much either.</strong> Anybody have any good remedies? <p>&nbsp;</p>Any other suggestions I haven't tried? Maybe I just have an uber sensitive nose and am doomed to suffer. <p><font color="#000080"><font size="2">You should try a humidifier. And if that doesn't work, try a saline nose spray.</font></font></p><p>Wow. I need to read better.</p>

[HBox]

Seriously though, if you are not sleeping in the same room as the baby just try keeping one of your windows open just a little bit. It'll make your room cooler than the rest of the house and bring in a little moisture.

[johnniewalker]

<strong>Fez4PrezN2008</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>johnniewalker</strong> wrote:<br />This sounds gross but i used to snort vaseline when I was little to stop nosebleeds. <p>Wouldn't that get your $20 bill all greasy?</p><p>&nbsp;Ha, very funny F4P.&nbsp; It really works though, just take a bit put it in your nose, hold down the other nostril and snort it up there.&nbsp; Works like a peach. &nbsp; </p>

[ShelleBink]

<p>Not to beat a dead horse, but what nasal spray are you using?&nbsp; I use Zicam Nasal Comfort and have found that helps a lot ((I suffer from the dry nose too)).&nbsp; Maybe you need to use something stronger than you already have.</p><p>Sorry its not a real help... just trying to make a suggestion.&nbsp;</p>

[lintpit]

shellebink is right. any saline based nasal spray re:NASAL should help without irritating sinus' or mucous membranes.

[reeshy]

<p>Being a registered nurse....I know the answer....but I'm afraid I would be banned for giving a nursing diagnosis!!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sorry!!!!&nbsp;</p>

[OGC]

<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="3">Might it help if I pee in your nose ?</font></p>

[sr71blackbird]

I have been using saline nasal spray for a few years now and it helps enormously.&nbsp; I get the Target brand.&nbsp; Cheep and good.&nbsp; Try Walgreens too.

[Lumber]

<strong>Captain Rooster</strong> wrote:<br />by a humidifier for your room ... you'll sleep better and not be so bleedy. <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dats wut I be doin' Yo!</p>

[sr71blackbird]

<p>While showering, I also will cup and handfull of water and gently draw it into my nose and then blast it out.&nbsp; Just hose down the walls afterward!</p>

[outlawfrank]

<p>I know what usually starts my nose bleeds.&nbsp; It end up stopping twelve hours after i'm broke.&nbsp; hmmm...go figure.</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>Any heating unit sucks the moisture out of the air, so I start coughing and getting dry lungs when it gets cold enough that said heater is needed.</p><p>I buy the uber-cheap vaporizer, the kind that looks like aplastic bedpan and you pour water into and the heating element heats the water and it gurgles nicely all night and damn, for me, makes all the diff. </p><p>Gimme steam...</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.bulldogrescue.co.uk/wrinkle2.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="132" /></p><p>I put vaseline on my nose. &nbsp;</p>

[johnniewalker]

<strong>Bulldogcakes</strong> wrote:<br /><p> <img src="http://www.bulldogrescue.co.uk/wrinkle2.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="132" /></p><p>I put vaseline on my nose. </p><p>&nbsp;Thank god someone's backing me up with the snorting of the vaseline.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>

[WhistlePig]

Any brand-name humidifiers/vaporizors you're happy with and can
recommend? I'm thinking the one I have just stinks. As far as nasal spray,
I've used Ocean saline spray and generic saline spray and it's better than
nothing but still really doesn't help that much. I hate feeling like a dried-out
mummy in the winter. Maybe I will start snorting vaseline!

[TooCute]

I haven't tried it myself yet (the humidifier's working ok for me) but my
friends SWEARS by the neti pot.
<img src="http://www.2skinnypros.com/blog1/uploaded_images/netipot-
chick-730545.jpg">

[TooCute]

Try again.
http://www.amazinghealth.co.uk/netipot.jpg

[suggums]

toughen it up and pick it

[ralphbxny]

Humidifier and less coke. It will help.

[Bill From Yorktown]

<strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br />I got my first nosebleed of the season this morning, one of many to come. I know it's the dry air from having the heat on (we have a forced-air heat pump). I bought a humidifier but that isn't helping. Last year I kept it a cold 62 degrees inside all winter which helped a little but this year with a new baby in the house I have to keep it warmer which means suffering for my poor nose. I use saline spray but that doesn't help much either. Anybody have any good remedies? <p>FIRST ONE?&nbsp; FIRST ONE?&nbsp; Sheesh between the dry heat and the blood thinners I'm on I get them all the time.&nbsp; Sucks.&nbsp; Get a humidifier.</p>

[Rockvillejoe]

According to my older brother, and believe me, he had nasal issues, he&nbsp; uses a &quot;water pik&quot; nasal spray. it's actually a water pik designed to shoot warm water and salt into one nostril and out of the other. he has not had&nbsp; a problem for 3 years after a lifetime of problems. check it out.