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Son's bloody nose and fainting

From: Jim
Date: 2/1/01
Time: 2:03:23 PM
Remote Name: 4.54.81.226

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My 20 year old sonhas always been prone to nosebleeds. Lately theyhave been hapening about once a week. Yesterday after a nosebleed he fainted. He went to a doctor who put him on an EKG and then did a cat scan thinking he had bleeding on the brain. The doctor thought about a spinal tap but decided not to do so because the cat scan was negative. She then told him she thought he had vaso-vagal syndrome. He had extremely high blood pressure when he was 2 weeks old but never had any re-occurrence. Your thoughts?

This web site is not a substitute for a thorough medical evaluation and diagnosis of your vaso-vagal type symptoms.  Medical treatment and diagnosis is the only acceptable initial response to these serious symptoms since they might present from any number of life threatening and treatable illnesses. It is for you and your physician to rule out more serious illnesses; Please don't use this online forum as an alternative to getting responsible medical attention and being under the care of a physician for the duration of any unknown, suspected or dangerous vaso-vagal syndrome symptoms.

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