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My daughter (8 years 9 mo) is currently sick with a really bad cold and non stop cough.  The cold must have caused her nasal passages to be aggravated and she came down stairs with a bloody nose.  This was the WORST bloody nose we have ever seen!  The nose was bleeding like a faucet.  She threw up blood because she was swallowing it, she was spitting out blood constantly because it was in her mouth, and she was screaming because the blood was everywhere and wouldn’t stop coming like crazy!  We tried the usual things – putting pressure on the nose – it did nothing but fill towel after towel with blood in seconds.  My husband started to panic and put her in the car to take her to ER.  I called the doctors to see if I could find additional advice.  I was lucky to get a nurse right away, she said to put ice on the nose while putting pressure and we could wait 15 minutes as long as she wasn’t showing signs of an emergency – like getting faint, etc.  So, I wanted to try this before we went into the ER – we were already in the car but we got more towels, ice packs, and cooled her nose down and added more pressure on the site.  It slowed a little after about 3 minutes.  We took advantage and of that and went at it more with ice and pressure.  It would sometimes start up with a gush again when she would cough but I felt like we were ahead of it now.  We stayed with cooling the nose and putting pressure to clot it.  We let her spit constantly so she wouldn’t have to swallow the blood and wouldn’t need to throw up again.  Finally, it slowed more and then we got it to stop.  The whole event took about 20-25 minutes and it was scary, we saw a LOT of blood – and if the cooling and pressure hadn’t made any progress at all in 5-10 minutes, we would have been heading to the ER but I was pleased to see that staying calm and giving it time with ice and pressure did make a difference and my daughter is feeling much better now.