WHAT ARE NOSEBLEEDS AND WHAT CAUSES THEM?

The medical term for nosebleeds is epistaxis – when the tiny blood vessels in your nose bleed. Several a week may be attributed to factors such as high blood pressure. 90 per cent of epistaxis occurs in the Kiesselbach’s plexus, or Little’s area, a region in the nose where five arteries join together. The position of this means that it’s largely affected by breathing and dries out, making the mucous membrane in your nostrils become inflamed or cracked and more likely to haemorrhage.