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[Fishead soup]

This is something I can never recall happening when I was in school.
In the west a nosebleed for no reason is often assosiated with some hidden lingering illness. In Korean middle schools its quite common.

[mogbert]

Maybe it's the 4hrs of sleep, 16hrs of studying, and the stress.

[mack the knife]

I try to explain the dangers of cocaine to my students starting around the 5th grade.

[EricaSmile84]

I noticed that too! I have about 1 nosebleed per week. It's strange. I also noticed that at any given time, there is at least 1 person in my school (teacher or student) who is wearing an eyepatch. I don't get it.

[Gamecock]

eyepatch=brother got a new bb gun

[pkang0202]

I got a 4th grader that picks his nose every English class for the whole period.

Its not picking it with 1 finger. He gets 2 fingers in there, like he's trying to pull out nose hairs.

I was amazed one day as how far he got 2 fingers in his nostrils. He smiles the whole time too. I'm surprised he doesn't get nose bleeds in my class.

[itstiff]

yeah, what is up with the eye patches?

maybe both the eye patches and nose bleeds are caused from, as someone else said, studying 20 hours a day and sleeping only 4 hours.

[GreenlightmeansGO]

I attributed it to the dry air. It happened a lot more to my kindy students in the colder months. Also, it may have something to do with their smaller noses (no bridge in the real young ones). Sometimes you can see that big blue mess of veins between their eyes...

It could also be them snorting Kimchi...

[mmarshalynne]

I used to get them frequently when I was a kid due to poor diet. I was a finicky eater. When my mother took me to the doctor, he said it was lack of vitamin K and C. He prescribed a chidren's multiple and that cleared up the problem.

[bundangbabo]

If it was up to me - more students would be suffering from nosebleeds - mouthy little gets!

[QbertP]

Pollution. The same reason you see people wearing those little hospital masks. The junk in the air irratates eyes making them more prone to infection. Ditto for nasal passages, more sensitive plus, dry air, equals blood. Also I get more pimples here than in the states. I tend to think of that as a result of air pollution as well.

[Rusty Shackleford]

The eye patches are for pink eye. My school is riddled with it right now. AT least 3 kids in every class have patches on. It seems to be endemic here. At least where I work. I had never come across it before I came here so obviously I caught it. Luckily I'm pretty healthy so it went awy fast with some eye drops.

Haven't come across a large number of nose bleeds.

[Ukon]

Just a guess...because they live at a higher altitude perhaps?

[ajuma]

Dry air (especially when chalk is used) and not enough water. Pink eye is SOOO common here. One day I had 7 students (out of 35) absent because they were at the dr. for pink eye!!

[BS.Dos.]

Amphetamine laced Kimchi?