Are nosebleeds a symptom in children?

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I am in an area where covid is rife. A couple of weeks ago my DD mentioned that three people in her class (teenagers) had had nosebleeds within two days. She thought it was strange, and a few days later about half the class was off as contacts of positive cases within the class. Yesterday my DS mentioned that people in his class kept having nosebleeds - three children in one week, including one child with multiple nosebleeds. Now his whole class is isolating because of a positive case in his class, but it isn't one of the nosebleed children. This just seems like such a coincidence to me and that nosebleeds may be a symptom in children and therefore they should get tested. Has anyone else noticed this? I know the older kids could have caused a nosebleed through lateral flow testing, but the younger ones are still in primary so they don't test.

A very dry environment will cause nosebleeds, and that can affect multiple kids. You've only actually had 2 cases in different classes; cases are higher in schools with Delta variant, younger kids 5-9 as well as the teens, some of whom might also have siblings in the other class. So I'd vote coincidence. Lack of moisture in the nose/ mouth also makes people more susceptible to all kinds of breathed-in infection though, so it's not great if there is very dry air.

I don't think I quite understand your comment, sorry. You are saying cases are higher in schools, but also that nosebleeds are nothing to do with covid? It probably is a coincidence, you're right. I just thought it strange that both my children, separately, mentioned multiple nosebleeds in their classes just before positive cases in class were identified.

I get nosebleeds a lot, particularly in hot or dry weather, and as an effect of hayfever.

My son has had 4 nosebleeds recently as it’s so dry and humid I think high pressure attributes to them. He’s been off school for 2 weeks so not covid

Oh maybe it is hayfever. Not particularly hot or dry here at the moment.

My child had a nosebleed for 5 days running when he had covid. And it wasn’t just a little bleed x

I’m 44 and when I had Covid a couple of months ago nosebleeds were one of my symptoms although they didn’t kick in until after a huge raft of other symptoms

They're highly symptomatic in this house...

Of DD1 having her finger furtling away up there again.

I had my first ever nosebleed last year, when I also had other covid symptoms (before testing was a thing).

My friend is a nurse and she said that she'd seen similar cases.

This is interesting. DH had a massive nose bleed new year's day which got to the point where I was debating calling for help because it wouldn't stop (it did eventually do so). The next day he got a cough. We isolated and he tested, only for the lab to lose his results

Oh so maybe there is something in it! I know a lot of children do get nosebleeds normally, my own DS used to get them all the time. But I do think it's unusual for several people to have them at once, especially since neither of my kids has mentioned it to me about several people having them in class before, yet summer/hay fever season happens every year.

Just been talking about nosebleeds here! I’m a teacher and a year 10 had one last week. Unusual to see in Secondary in my experience and then my year 5 DD just told me a girl in her class keeps having them. Probably just hay fever related but I hadn’t considered Covid

May be it’s as a result of the twice weekly lateral flow tests? They do take their toll on your shnozz

Yes. There has been a massive upsurge in numbers of nosebleeds recently. I initially thought it might be related to taking nose swabs, but all the children who have been investigated have come back diagnosed with low platelets, which is related to covid

We had around 3x or 4x the normal incidence of nose bleeds just before our school was completely closed by PHE because of multiple positive covid cases

And not normal nose bleeds. Massive ones. The worst I’ve ever seen

Yes I had wondered about whether it was lateral flow tests or facemasks, but then the primary kids don't have either of those (I have one primary and one secondary). I think it would be pretty unusual for three teenagers in a group of 30 to have nosebleeds within 2 days. Like some other posters are saying, they also seem to be very heavy or repeated in some people.

Yes my son doesn’t get a lot of nosebleeds either which is why I queried a link to covid, nor does he get tested with LF’s much. Very odd x

DS2 (7) currently has Covid and is having recurrent, spectacular, nosebleeds. I rang the GP about it (he's anaemic anyway so this much blood loss could be problematic) and she said it's really common with kids and Covid.

Oh no I hope not. Two of my class (Year 3) had epic nosebleeds this afternoon. No other symptoms though.

Possibly but maybe in a long covid way rather than active necessarily.
Both my dcs have had nosebleeds since mar 2020 and neither had really had them before. They didnt i think get them in apr when i think we had covid but did around sept after being back at school. Dc2 has had lots since.
It could be having the window open all the time is making the air drier.

Ive had a lit less snot since the suspected covid and during it i had no snot which was pretty much unheard of for me with illnesses. I didbt even get hayfever etc