Health Tip: Help Prevent Nosebleeds
If your child has regular nosebleeds, there are precautions you can take to help prevent the problem.
The University of Virginia Health System offers these suggestions:
- The air in your home may be dry. Use a cool mist humidifier, especially at night, in your child's room.
- Don't allow your child to blow the nose too hard, or pick the nose.
- Apply a small amount of petroleum jelly to the inside of the child's nose several times a day, and always at bedtime.
- Apply saline drops or nasal spray to the nose, as recommended by your pediatrician.
- If your child has allergies, seek regular treatment from the child's doctor.
Fluoride is a natural substance found in water, and is added to many municipal water supplies to help prevent cavities.
The Nemours Foundation offers these guidelines about the use of fluoride in children::
- Children should only use fluoride supplements if they live in areas with non-fluoridated water, or if they drink only non-fluoridated bottled water.
- Children under age 6 should never use a fluoride mouth rinse.
- Children under 6 months don't need fluoride supplements and shouldn't been given them.
- Fluoride toothpaste should not be used on children younger than 2 unless recommended by a doctor or dentist.
- Children should use only a pea-sized amount of toothpaste.
- Watch children up to age 6 when they brush their teeth to make sure that they spit out the toothpaste, and that not too much is swallowed.
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