Acupressure points for Epistaxis, Acupressure treatment for Epistaxis, Acupressure reflex points for Epistaxis.

Acupressure points for Epistaxis, Acupressure treatment for Epistaxis, Acupressure reflex points for Epistaxis.

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Acupressure treatment for Epistaxis (Nose Bleed)

Bleeding from the nose is called epistaxis. It may be:-

•  Anterior/ posterior

•  Spontaneous/induced

Causes of epistaxis:-

•  Congenital/hereditary

•  Trauma a) to the nose, paranasal sinuses or the head.

•  Post-operative

•  Picking the nose particularly in little's area where there is maximum network of capillaries.

 

•  Inflammation of nose rhinitis or sinusitis, adenoids.

•  Tumours of nose, throat, sinuses.

•  Foreign body

•  Vicarious menstruation: where there is epistaxis instead of menstrual bleeding.

•  Hypertension

•  Blood cancer, haemophilia

•  In high altitude

•  Viral fever like influenza, measles, chicken pox

•  Typhoid, rheumatic fever

Acupressure treatment:

According to the cause.

Local points.

Reflex points: cervical spine, pituitary, nose, big toes.