Okay peeps...I've got the answer for you!! I too, have these scabs in my nose! Sometimes both nostrils at the same time!! Other times..just one side. I've seen my doctor and I was tested positive for MRSA. MRSA is a staph infection in your nose. MANY people have this. Also is known as a form of impetigo. However, many of you noted that you've had these scabs nonstop? Mine are not all the time. Sometimes I'll go months without one! I do find when I am overly stressed or worried...this is when I tend to get them! My doctor prescribed bacitracin...and this works wonders! I too was tested for nasal cancer...and do NOT have it! Cold winter months tend to dry the nasal passages out as well. Avoid using nasal sprays for they will make it worse! A&D cream, lanolin and coconut oil will work as well. This is a form of virus and it STAYS in your system. Just like the herpes simplex virus 1. Once you have it...it is in your system for life. But...simple solutions will reduce the discomfort. Also...try not to get too stressed about stuff...because that will definitely bring it on sooner! I wish you all luck ...totally can relate to what you ALL are feeling!! Just wanted to give you the feedback that I received! Hope you get relief soon!! God Bless!! :)
My otlaryngologist tried everything including surgery to loosen these crusts to no avail. However, the doctor's husband, a ski enthusiast, recommended an OCT product called, "Ponaris" (eucalyptus oil). If used religiously it will loosen the scab so it can be removed without damage or nosebleed. Also, in winter, I add a vaporizer that emits warm steam. The scab never completely goes away, but it won't continue to block the nasal passages so that you can breathe again, and it will prevents nose bleeds. You can ask your pharmacist to order it for you or purchase on line.
I have this too. I did coke but I stopped when my nose started feeling funny 7 weeks ago. Its driving me nuts...huge bloody scabs and boogers yuck. I even got that weird whitish fingernail looking scab today. I also had the worst headache of my life earlier this week...it was so painful and lasted hours and hours... This *****!!
OMG I've been googling this forever but finally found the right search words and I can't believe how many people have the SAME thing and feel the same way, like fear of cancer, can't breathe so feel compelled to remove it, then feel like they caused it by being god forbid, 'nose pickers". The answers given so far seem to ring most true with the pathogens being either MRSA or impetigo. This has inspired me to keep my finger out of my nose but before reading this I have a compelling desire to feel it to chart it's progress. Unable to see it makes one want to touch it, and results in it being infected. So now I'm willing not to put anything up there but hibiclens, and then moupacin on a q-tip.
I too thought it could be herpes 1 related. It did improve on antibiotics but did not fix it and the drugs were killing my guts. Sometimes mine bleeds. Sometimes a thick hard (almost like a fingernail) whitish or light yellow scab is like hanging there and how am I not to remove it in order to breathe? Often it causes great pain, a toothache a headache a small pimple on the forehead or nose, even a wire like thread protusion in my pallete, what is that??? It's been very scary. It has even changed the shape of my face around that sinus ever so slightly but being vain, it really bothers me. I worry about cancer, but even more likely a brain infection, as it is so close to the brain and the blood vessels going to it. Also mine started with a septumplasty and that made this spot more in the path of air flow and dried it out. Shortly after this same time I had severe dry mouth adding to this issue from medications. Then the very first thing that happened (now 6 years ago) was following the above events, I felt an annoying "scab" = the hard part is you can't see these thing and that's what makes you stick your finger in your nose. There was a hard raised spot that felt 'dead" and had loosened edges so I just pulled it out....that left a small crater which grew anothre hard spot and left a bigger crater and on and on it went. It has lately had been waking me up with pain in these places I mentioned and more intense than ever before so that is why I googled these new words. Actually after reading the previous blogs I tried the q tips and maupicin yesterday and today have given my some relief but I am not about to "feel" it with my finger for a long long time. And I am buying hibiclens first chance I get. Thank you so much to everyone. All the doctors had said it was due to me picking my nose which is not even close to what is going on. It is what all of us have been experiencing so the doctors made me feel pretty stupid. and bad which did not help things at all.
Hi all, it is indeed very useful article and comments here gave a lot of information. BTW i m 28 and i have been living with this sore or whatever it is on the nose wall in left nostril and since i came to know about things about the world ;). it has been almost 20 years perhaps. the main thing i would like to mention here is that my sore moves here and there in the nose wall :O.. sometimes it comes at the edge of outside skin sometime it goes very deep. and i always have to clean it with finger. though i never went to doctor as it is not a problem for me though sometimes it becomes more swelled and bleeds but when it is cleaned things are easier. SO i want to tell everyone who is facing this situation, dont think much and no need to go to doctor until u have got a serious problem with that.
thnks everyone
siraj
I have had scabs in my nose for almost a year, and will let you know if I can find a remedy. Your article was great, insightful. Im thinking it has to do with vitamin deficiency, due to an incapability to absorb certain vitamins. Probably b vitamins. Also something like fungus or mold contributes to the problem. Keep trying we will find the answer