micro-trauma? negligible? normal?

[PvtStash]

Hellohello

I've got 14 dives logged so far in my latest Life Venture and I wanted to comment on something that I've found ever-so-slightly troubling...

Perhaps not every time, but Often after a dive... right after I break the surface and inflate my bcd I often have alot of mucus or the urge to "hock a lugie" (sp?) ...

The concerned part is that this mucus is often blood tinged... very little... so little as to not even be red, but a orangy-yellow...

also sometimes notice a lil' dried blood in one or the other nostrils...

dry air? micro-trauma ?

Is this indicative of anything or can I forget about it as its nothing ?

Is it something I build a tolerance against with repeated diving?



thx

 

[AbyssalPlains]

Could be that you have sensitive sinuses that are prone to rupturing small vessels. I suggest you post this question in the dive medicine forum.

 

[viceroy]

The blood in your mucus sounds like you're not equalising often enough...
The excess mucus is pretty normal

 

[Tigerman]

As far as ive heard what you describe is quite normal, but as others has suggested it might be better to ask this question in the diving medicine section or better yet ask a diving physician in person so he can check you out if neccesary.

 

[vladimir]

"hock a lugie" (sp?) ...

The OED prefers "loogie," but "lugie" is an acceptable alternate spelling.

 

[DandyDon]

The blood in your mucus sounds like you're not equalising often enough...
The excess mucus is pretty normal

That's usually it. The snot is common over all, the bloody snot common to newbies. When my home dive bud was brand new, he'd do that so much it accumulated in his mask - then when he pulled his mask off, it spread all across his bald forehead. Even made physicians onboard ill.

He still has challenges clearing at times, but the video in the link below helped him a lot. Of course, you'll get better opinions from physicians who dive if you ask in the Medical forum as suggested. Usually tho, it's learn to clear better, earlier, more often, and blow the snot out before you surface. You'll see old salts with snotty noses tho...

 

[Hickdive]

Snot is perfectly normal, a little bit of blood in it isn't something to worry about.

The trouble is that diving is advertised with pictures of beautiful people walking up pristine beaches, taking their masks off, and grinning at the camera with not a mask oyster in sight.

The reality is that breathing dry air for extended periods stimulates mucus production so you end up with a snotty mask, but that isn't so good for advertising campaigns so non-divers and novices think that snot is unusual rather than normal.

Also there's an awful lot of small blood vessels very close to the surface in your nose and sinuses and they're easily damaged, so you can get blood in your snot.

 

[maged_mmh]

The concerned part is that this mucus is often blood tinged... very little... so little as to not even be red, but a orangy-yellow...

also sometimes notice a lil' dried blood in one or the other nostrils...

i reckon i had my fair share when started out, it'll go by the time you log few more dives

 

[PvtStash]

thanks for putting my mind at ease gang w/ the prompt replies...