5yo DD suddenly having nosebleeds – reassurance please

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Hi all,
Looking for some reassurance from other parents.
My 5 year old DD has had 3 nosebleeds over the last 3 weeks. They’ve been short-lived, stopped easily, and each time from one nostril (alternating sides). She’s never really had nosebleeds before which is what’s thrown me.

She does bruise easily on her legs but she’s very active and does a lot of gymnastics etc. A couple of months ago she had some petechiae which were checked by the A&E and she had blood tests at the time – all came back normal and the petechiae resolved.

She othereise has good energy, eating, sleeping, playing as normal. She does currently have a cold but not all the nosebleeds were during colds.

I know nosebleeds can be common in children (dry air, little noses, winter etc) but I’ve sent myself into a spiral worrying about worst-case scenarios and Dr Google has not helped 🙈 I have severe health anxiety and I've felt sick since the nosebleed happened.

Has anyone else’s child had a sudden run of nosebleeds like this and it turned out to be nothing? At what point would you go back to the GP?

Please be kind, anxious mum here. 💛

It’s not something I would go to the GP for as they won’t do anything. It’s 3 small nosebleeds in 3 weeks.

My DS has nosebleeds, it’s worse in the heat. Sometimes the ENT doctors cauterise the nose as it can be due to a weak capillary in the nose. But that’s with consistent nose bleeds that are a problem.

My DD has literally just had this - three nosebleeds in 8 days when she normally has no nosebleeds. She had a really heavy cold and the GP was lovely when I rang - gave us a list of other symptoms to look out for that might be a worry but said that she’d probably got a little sensitive spot in her nose and kept knocking a scab off and making it bleed. She said anything could knock it off. We kept DD off swimming for a couple of weeks but they basically stopped as soon as they started once her cold went.

Hers were heavy enough that we had to pick her up from school because they wouldn’t stop, but all is well. And we called the GP because NHS 111 online told us to, so I don’t feel like it’s an unreasonable thing to have done!