RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Incidence of oronasal haemorrhage in infancy presenting to general practice in the UK
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 877
OP 879
DO 10.3399/bjgp08X376122
VO 58
IS 557
A1 Neil McIntosh
A1 James Chalmers
YR 2008
UL http://bjgp.org/content/58/557/877.abstract
AB 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.