Talk:Kiesselbach's plexus

Technical Language

I suffer from chronic nosebleeds (due primarily to allergies), and I came here to find out what Little's area was and what I could do with it to reduce the frequency of said nosebleeds. I also have an IQ close to 150 and a graduate degree---yet I could barely understand anything written in this article! I was able to figure out the main points and most important words from context, but it bothers me that the medical portions of this site seem to be written specifically for those with medical degrees, when in fact they are the ones who least need to read Wikipedia for medical information. I also found it infuriating that the illustration on this page wasn't even of Little's area. Nearly 300 registered Wikipedians claim to be doctors; one would think they could find a more relevant free image and make the articles a bit more comprehensible to the vast majority of us who are not doctors. Like I said, I'm a smart guy; I shudder to think what would happen if a person with an IQ of 90 tried to find info on, well, pretty much any medical malady. Your excessive use of technical jargon makes a good portion of the site virtually useless to most of the population. It stands to reason that, if Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia anyone can edit, it should also be the free encyclopedia anyone can use. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 16:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm new at this Wikipedia stuff, but I just wanted to let this user know that the best thing one can do for any allergy is to STOP CONSUMING ALL DAIRY PRODUCTS. Not many people want to hear that, I suppose cuz the stuff is so good and is so prevalent in our diets. Even the non-dairy stuff out there has the most dominant dairy protein in it which, unfortunately, causes the majority of allergic reactions (casseine or casein or caseinate). I like dairy, but it doesn't take much and it starts wreaking havoc with my sinuses, and that's just one of the many side effects of consuming dairy products. Also, when having trouble with nosebleeds....keep inside of the nose moist with vaseline. Hope that helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linda Nitzschke (talk • contribs) 09:48, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dozzzzzzzzzing off! Since you last saw the article, it probably hasn't improved much. The image in the article at the time, and currently, does show Little's area. What do you think about this image of the arteries? I would put the argument that the Nosebleed article is both more helpful for the average person learning about nosebleeds, and is more user friendly (particularly the lead section). WP:MEDMOS recommends that language should be like that which a doctor would use to talk to a patient, and (except for the anatomy, which most non-clinicians will never need to know) this language is generally used. I will try to further improve this. Thanks! Bibeyjj (talk) 18:35, 12 November 2021 (UTC)