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Nosebleed Remedy Yields Amazing Results

Posting Date: 04/19/2004

?Finally, another specialist decided this isn?t normal. He sent me to a blood specialist at the cancer center. The tests showed that I have a platelet storage pool abnormality. The doctor said my blood platelets barely work at all. It?s not cancer but there is no cure.

?My nosebleeds last for teens of hours (18 being the most). Extra Strength NeoSynephrine helps, but only a little.

?After reading your column, I put keys down my back with my wife as a witness. I had the usual gusher that had been bleeding for nine hours and I felt real dumb dropping keys down my back. My nose quit bleeding in one minute 25 seconds. I was dumbfounded.

?I had another gusher yesterday. Instead of dropping the keys I held them against my upper back. My nosebleed stopped in 20 seconds. AMAZING!?

We agree that such results are amazing. Home remedies rarely produce such instantaneous relief.

These days, most physicians prefer ?evidence-based? treatments. It is not likely that there will be a randomized, double-blind clinical trial to test keys down the back of the neck for nosebleeds. But we can think of few safer and less expensive approaches.

If it works, wonderful. If it doesn?t, the nosebleed victim hasn?t lost more than a few minutes before seeking medical advice.

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Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist. Teresa Graedon holds a doctorate in medical anthropology and is a nutrition expert. Their syndicated radio show can be heard on public radio. In their column, Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of this newspaper or e-mail them via their Web site: www.PeoplesPharmacy.org.