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Causes of Nosebleeds
This section discusses 247 medical conditions causing Nosebleeds. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Nosebleeds:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Nosebleeds.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Nose conditions
- Nose injury
- Blow to the nose
- Broken nose
- Nose picking
- Nasal infection
- Nasal congestion
- Common cold
- Allergies
- Nasal polyp
- Nasal foreign body
- Chronic sinusitis
- Nasal tumors
- Sinus tumors
- Nasal cancer
- Dry nasal passages
- Bleeding disorders
- Hypertension
- Rapid weight loss
- Excessive dieting
- Head injury
- Certain medications
- See also causes of bleeding or runny nose
- Rheumatic fever
Common Causes: Nosebleeds
Some of the possible common medical causes of Nosebleeds may include:
- Nose picking
- Aplastic anemia
- Hypertension
- Chronic glomerulonephritis
- Coagulation disorders
- Hemophilia
- Thrombocyopenic purpura
- Barotrauma
- Acute leukemia
- Chronic leukemia
- Maxillofacial injury
- Nasal fracture
- Nasal tumour
- Polycythemia vera
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroma
- Acute sinusitis
- Skull fracture
- Sphenoidal fracture
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Typhoid fever
Other Causes: Nosebleeds
Some of the less common causes of Nosebleeds may include:
- Chemical irritants- phosphorous
- Sulphuric acid
- Ammonia
- Printer's ink
- Chromates
- Anticoagulants- warfarin
- Aspirin
- Cocaine use
- Septoplasty
- Rhinoplaty
- Antrostomy
- Endoscopic sinus procedures
- Orbital decompression
- Dental extraction
Causes of Nosebleeds listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Nosebleeds as a symptom include:
- Angiofibroma
- Asphyxiation
- Bleeding tendency
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Esthesioneuroblastomas, olfactory
- Head injury
- Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Hypertension, systemic
- Isotretinoin
- Maxillary sinus carcinoma
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
- Nasal type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Polychondritis
- Polycythaemia rubra vera
- Rheumatic fever
- Rhinosporidiosis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Nosebleeds:
The following list of conditions have 'Nosebleeds' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Conditions listing medical complications: Nosebleeds:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Nosebleeds' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Nosebleeds
- Nosebleeds: Introduction
- Diagnostic tests for Nosebleeds
- Diagnosis Checklist: Questions Doctors Should Ask for Nosebleeds
- Medical Textbooks Online for Nosebleeds
- Travel-related causes of Nosebleeds
- Diabetes-related causes of Nosebleeds
- Patient Surveys
- Join in at the forums
List of 247 causes of Nosebleeds
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Nosebleeds in our database from various sources.
- Accelerated hypertension - nose bleeds
- Accidental Eye Injury - Epistaxis
- Acquired Aplastic Anemia - nose bleeds
- Acquired prothrombin deficiency - nosebleeds
- Acute cholinergic dysautonomia - bleeding nose
- Acute leukemia
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia - Epistaxis
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia - nose bleeds
- Acute sinusitis
- Adhesive abuse - nosebleeds
- Adhesive addiction - nosebleeds
- ADP platelet receptor P2Y12, deficiency of - nose bleeds
- Aerosol abuse - nosebleeds
- Aerosol addiction - nosebleeds
- Aging
- Allergies
- Ammonia
- Angiofibroma
- Anticoagulants- warfarin
- Antrostomy
- Aplastic anemia - nosebleeds
- Argentinean hemorrhagic fever - bleeding nose
- Asphyxiation
- Aspirin
- Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome - frequent nose bleeds
- Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia - epistaxis
- Back tumour - bleeding from nose and gums
- Banti's syndrome - nosebleed
- Barotrauma - nose bleeds
- Benign mucosal pemphigoid - bleeding nose
- Bernard-Soulier Syndrome - frequent nosebleeds
- Bing-Neel syndrome - bleeding nose
- Bleeding disorders - Frequent nose bleeds
- Bleeding tendency
- Blow to the nose
- Bolivian hemorrhagic fever - bleeding nose
- Broken nose - nosebleeds
- Brown snake poisoning - bleeding nose
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Certain medications
- Chemical irritants- phosphorous
- Chemical poisoning - Anticoagulant rodenticide - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Biphenyl - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Borates - nosebleeds
- Chemical poisoning - Brodifacoum - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Bromadiolone - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Calcium Sulfate - nose bleeds
- Chemical poisoning - Diquat Dibromide - nose bleed
- Chemical poisoning - Formaldehyde - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Metaldehyde - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Tetrachloroethylene - bleeding nose
- Chemical poisoning - Tetryl - nose bleeds
- Chemical poisoning - Vanadium - bleeding nose
- Chlorophacinone rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Cholestasis, progressive familial intrahepatic 1 - epistaxis
- Christmas disease
- Chromates
- Chronic glomerulonephritis
- Chronic leukemia
- Chronic sinusitis
- Chronic vitamin A toxicity - nose bleeds
- Clotting disorders
- Coagulation disorders
- Cocaine
- Cocaine abuse - nosebleeds
- Cocaine use
- Cold dry air
- Common cold
- Congenital Afibrinogenemia - nosebleed
- Congenital aplastic anemia - bleeding nose
- Coumachlor rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Coumafuryl rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Coumatetralyl rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Defibrination syndrome - Nosebleeds
- Dental extraction
- Deviated Septum - Nosebleeds
- Difenacoum rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Difethialone rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Diphacinone rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Dry nasal passages
- Endoscopic sinus procedures
- Essential thrombocytopenia - nosebleeds
- Essential thrombocytosis - same as essential thrombocythemia - nosebleed
- Esthesioneuroblastoma - bleeding nose
- Esthesioneuroblastomas, olfactory
- Excessive dieting
- Factor V deficiency - nose bleeds
- Factor V Quebec - nose bleeds
- Factor VII deficiency - nosebleed
- Factor X deficiency - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - autosomal dominant - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Friuli - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Kanazawa - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Ketchikan - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Nottingham - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Padua - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - San Antonio - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Santo Domingo - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Shanghai - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - St. Louis II - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Stockton - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Taunton - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Tokyo - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Vorarlberg - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Wenatchee I - nose bleeds
- Factor X deficiency - Wenatchee II - nose bleeds
- Familial platelet syndrome with predisposition to acute myelogenous leukemia - nose bleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group A - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group B - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group C - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group D1 - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group D2 - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group E - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group F - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group G - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group I - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group J - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group L - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group M - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group N - nosebleeds
- Fanconi's anemia - Estren-Dameshek variant - nosebleeds
- Fibrinogen deficiency, congenital - nosebleed
- Fibrosing Mediastinitis idiopathic - nosebleed
- Finale rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Flocoumafen rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Folgorat rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Glycogen storage disease type 1C - frequent nosebleeds
- Glycogen storage disease type 1D - frequent nosebleeds
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type I - frequent nosebleeds
- Havoc rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Head injury
- Hemoglobin S/hemoglobin Lepore, Boston - nosebleed
- Hemoglobin S/hemoglobin O, Arab - nosebleed
- Hemoglobin SC - nosebleed
- Hemophilia
- Hemorrhagic thrombocythemia - nosebleed
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Clove - bleeding nose
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Pennyroyal Oil - bleeding nose
- Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia - epistaxis
- Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome - nosebleed
- Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 2 - nosebleed
- Hip cancer - bleeding from nose and gums
- Hypertension - nose bleeds
- Hypertension due to bilateral renal artery stenosis - nose bleeds
- Hypertension due to coarctation of the aorta - bleeding nose
- Hypertension, systemic
- Immune thrombocytopenia - nose bleed
- Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura - bleeding nose
- Indandione rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Inhalant abuse - nosebleeds
- Inhalant addiction - nosebleeds
- Isotretinoin
- Klerat rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Leprosy - epistaxis
- Leukemia - nosebleeds
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - nose bleeds
- Malignant hypertension - nose bleeds
- Matikus rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Maxillary sinus carcinoma
- Maxillofacial injury
- May-Hegglin Anomaly - nosebleed
- May-Hegglin thrombocytopenia - nosebleed
- Menopause
- Mouser rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
- Myelodysplastic syndromes - Epistaxis
- Nasal cancer
- Nasal congestion
- Nasal foreign body
- Nasal fracture
- Nasal infection
- Nasal polyp
- Nasal tumors
- Nasal tumour
- Nasal type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma - bleeding nose
- Nose conditions - Nose bleeds
- Nose foreign body - nosebleeds
- Nose injury
- Nose picking
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever - nosebleed
- Orbital decompression
- Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome 2 - nosebleeds
- Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome 3 - nosebleeds
- Owren Parahemophilia - nose bleeds
- Pancytopenia - nose bleeds
- PFIC - epistaxis
- Pindone rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Platelet disorder, familial, with associated myeloid malignancy - nose bleeds
- Polychondritis
- Polycythaemia rubra vera
- Polycythemia vera
- Printer's ink
- Prothrombin deficiency - nosebleeds
- Quebec platelet disorder - nose bleeds
- Rapid weight loss
- Ratak Plus rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Relapsing fever - nosebleeds
- Renal hypertension - nose bleeds
- Renovascular Hypertension - nose bleeds
- Resistant hypertension - nose bleeds
- Rhabdomyosarcoma of the orbit - nose bleed
- Rheumatic fever
- Rhinoplaty
- Rhinosporidiosis
- Rib Tumor - bleeding from nose and gums
- Rodend rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroma
- Secondary Hypertension - nose bleeds
- See also causes of bleeding or runny nose
- Septoplasty
- Sickle Cell Anemia - nosebleed
- Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma - bleeding nose
- Sinus tumors
- Skull fracture
- Solvent abuse - nosebleeds
- Solvent addiction - nosebleeds
- Sphenoidal fracture
- Stachybotrys chartarum - nose bleeds
- Stuart factor deficiency, acquired - nose bleeds
- Stuart factor deficiency, congenital - nose bleeds
- Sulphuric acid
- Superior vena cava syndrome - nosebleed
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Talon rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Thrombasthenia - nosebleed
- Thrombocyopenic purpura
- Thrombocytopathy - bleeding nose
- Thrombocytopenia - nosebleeds
- Thrombocytopenic purpura, autoimmune - nosebleed
- Timme syndrome - nose bleeds
- Typhoid fever - nosebleeds
- Vitamin C deficiency - nosebleeds
- Volak rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Volid rodenticide poisoning - bleeding nose
- Von Gierke Disease - frequent nosebleeds
- Von Gierke disease IA - nosebleed
- Von Willebrand disease - frequent nosebleeds
- Von Willebrand's disease
- Waldenström Macroglobulinemia - nosebleed
- Wegener's granulomatosis - bloody nose
- Weil's syndrome - Epistaxis
- Whooping Cough - epistaxis
- X-linked dyserythropoietic anaemia and thrombocytopenia - nosebleeds
Drug side effect causes of Nosebleeds
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Nosebleeds as a side effect.
- Certain nasal sprays
- Nasal steroid spray
- Oral contraceptives
- Aspirin
- Ibuprofen
Drug interaction causes of Nosebleeds:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Nosebleeds.
- Miconazole and warfarin interaction
- Coumadin (Warfarin) and Mevacor (Lovastatin) interaction
- Coumadin (Warfarin) and Alka-Seltzer (acetylsalicylic acid) interaction
- Coumadin (Warfarin) and Anacin interaction
- Coumadin (Warfarin) and Ascriptin interaction
Medical Textbooks about Nosebleeds
Free online access to excerptswithout registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Nosebleeds. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Nosebleeds (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
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