Conference moira::parenting

    Chris used to have them all the time.  Run a humidifier (or wait a week
    or so if you're in New England!).  Chris got them till he was ~5.  Even
    now he or Jason will just get one "out of the blue".  Eliminate the
    obvious - that he might be picking/cutting his own nose.
    
    The Drs told us that it's from dry air, the membranes dry out, crack
    and bleed.  It was always worse at night/sleep time than any other time
    (I think from breathing through the nose more than when awake.)
    
    There never seemed to be anything that "triggered" it.  He could be
    sitting on the couch watching TV, and his nose would start bleeding. 
    Weird.  But he has outgrown it.
    
    Also, if his nose is drying out/getting uncomfortable, that may be
    causing him to wake "too soon".  
    
    We used to give Chris a clean dish towel (well, that size) at bedtime,
    and that helped him a lot.  he used to get scared because he didn't
    know how to deal with it.  By the time he was ~3.5, he wouldn't even
    wake us, just tell us the next morning "I had another nosebleed last
    night".  
    
    

    
    My daughter fell down on her face when she was a toddler and the 
    membrane inside her nose didn't heal too well. She had nose bleed
    on a regular basis, like once a week, for a few years. The nose
    bleeds were triggered by dryness, nose rubbing, blowing too hard,
    etc. Eventually she grew up of it. During those few years, her pedi 
    told us to put vaseline inside her nostrils with Q-tips every night, 
    year round. That helped tremendously. The nose bleeds went down
    80% or so.
    
    
    Eva

    I had them constantly as a kid for no reason. They stopped when
    I was about 15. I wouldn't be alarmed.
    
    

Gerry:

my son, now close to 9, has also had them for years.  Besides what 
others have listed, it could be a minor malformation of an important 
plexus (is that the right word? supposed to be a junction of arteries) 
high in the nose.  This kind of minor malformation, aneurysm for
instance, is quite common there, and can mean the arteries or
arterioles are fragile and burst easily, hence nosebleeds.  Absolutely 
nothing to worry about, but if it's bothersome they can sometimes find 
a place to cauterize, which can solve the problem.  See an ENT 
specialist -- that's what we're going to do with Andr�s.

Gabriel.

    Ditto to .3
    
    I had problems with allergies, which irrated my nose.
    It got to the point that I couldn't rub, touch or sneeze
    without triggering a nose bleed.  My nose matured,
    the rest of me remains a kid.  I eat frosted flakes, too.