Citation

McIntosh N, Chalmers J. Br. J. Gen. Pract. 2008; 58(557): 877-879.

Affiliation

Department of Child Life and Health, Edinburgh, Scotland. neil.mcintosh@ed.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Royal College of General Practitioners)

DOI

10.3399/bjgp08X376122

PMID

19068161

PMCID

PMC2593537

Abstract

The frequency of oronasal haemorrhage in infancy was estimated from two national GP research databases (6% UK population). When a case was identified, other presentations in the child over the first year were available from one dataset. In the first year haemoptysis is rare. In contrast, epistaxis (7-20 cases of per 10,000 infants) was 10 times more common, and 14.3% of these infants had an injury at some other point in infancy, (four times greater than the general population). In general practice epistaxis may herald other trauma presentations, implying that such infants may be part of a high-risk group for injury.

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