I get sores/pimples inside my nose that really hurt. What causes these and is there anything I can do to get rid of them?

I get them sometimes. They can occur because or irritation at the base of a hair follicle - maybe from trimming or a booger getting picked. Allergies or poor air can do it, too.

After a warm shower, clean your nose. Pick it, and wash it with water. Next use a saline nose spray. Don't sniff it up like you would normally do. Get it wet in the nose. Wipe it around with a cotton swab. Do it again. After it dries a bit, apply neosporin with pain relief with a cotton swab.

Basically, keep cleaning with the saline and applying the neosporin. It has helped me a lot. I work in a lot of smokey bars in heavily polluted cities.

I agree go to the doctor. We normally have staph in our nose...you know the same satph germ that the kids are getting in schools and are dying from, or the same staph that is rampant in the hospitals from people not washing their hands. And then there is the MRSA: Methacillin Resistant Staph Aureus, it the kind we don't want and can linger up there too. Don't pick your nose is good advice. Also good advice is not putting the petroleum based products up the nose..in fact should NEVER be done with oxygen...normally the staph we have in our nose can be handled by the body but when it can't we get infections like a little crusty sore telling us we have too much staph, the bactroban is only available from the MD and it should be the NASAL bactroban. This is a treatment many doc's are using also right before surgery to cut down on staph infections post op.
It's probably the best treatment listed here.
Ali-Registered Nurse

There is a great article about this. Go to www.doctorhoffman.com/xcrust.htm Basically, he explains the same thing my doctor told me. Recently I have been sick and I also have sores in my nose. They just appeared one day and were really sore. My doctor told me that I have a Golden Staph infection in my nose and prescribed me a nasal cream called BACTROBAN. It is expensive to buy over the counter (around $15 AUD) but it will get rid of the infection and the sores. Hydrogen peroxide on cotton buds will help keep the sores clean, but wont kill the infection.
This is NOT herpes. Herpes of the nose is described as small red bumps that can be painful, not scabs.
Try to read the article or just go to the doctor.

I had nose sores that would go away and come back, very painful. I finally went to my Doctor and she said it was Herpes. She said all of us have the complex lying dormant and it can flare up at any time. Nose sores are nothing to fool around with. I got medicine and finally have relief and no sores. Go to the doctor!

Sorry,I'm not going to be very helpful. I want the answer myself. My husband has been getting them 3-4 times a week. People......WE NEED ANSWERS!!!

ah.. im dealing with the same thing. hurts doesnt it? Just wait it out, forget it's there and quit touching/playing with it. it could worsen. this probably the safest way. hope you're healed soon. (:

my nose hurts to even touch it. It started a few days ago when a small white pimp showed up and the next day I got a bloody nose and now today I can't even touch my noise it hurts so bad. I bumped it very very softly and it made me tear up. What should I do?

I frequently get very painful things ( i dont even know what they are) inside of my nose. one time i read this page and alot of answers said to use neosporin. i did and it worked but the next day i got horrible back pain and a high fever. the bottle of neosporin says "for external use only" so i'm worried that putting it up my nose may have caused more problems than i started with. i currently have another "thing" inside of my nose and i want to use the neosporin again but im too worried about getting sick. has anyone else had a similar experience with neosporin?

Here's what worked for me:

For about three weeks, I had sores inside my nose - they really hurt and I had no idea how I got them or what they were (staph, impetigo, etc.). The sores were so big I couldn't breathe through my nose.

I hate going to doctors and using medicine, so I decided to try an experiment.

I peeled a couple of cloves of fresh garlic (a natural antibiotic) and minced them with a garlic press (you could just chop them into tiny pieces with a knife if you don't have a press). I mixed this with a bit of olive oil to buffer the burn of the garlic, then mixed in a tiny bit of flour to make a paste. I stuffed this concoction up my nose, then plugged both nostrils with cotton (you could use kleenex). Then I pinched my nose shut so the garlic would be sure to make contact with all the inside surfaces of my nose. It burned a bit, but I figured the burn was what was making it work. After about 15 minutes of pinching, I got all the garlic concoction out of my nose and rinsed with water.

By the time I woke up the next day, a LOT of the soreness was already gone! Over the next few days the sores started to dry up (be sure to leave them completely alone so they can heal) and after about 3-4 days, I could tell the scabs were starting to peel at the edges and were ready to come off, so I gave them a little help. A tiny bit of bleeding happened, but not much at all.

Even though I had intended to do the garlic thing for several days, I got busy and just did it the one time. Now it's only been about 6 days, and my nose is completely healed. I can't even believe it myself . . . garlic is powerful stuff! Be sure to use fresh garlic - you want it to have the most potent "stuff" in it to do the job.

The whole thing cost me less than a dollar since I already had olive oil, but even if you have neither garlic nor olive oil on hand, the cost of both is less than $10. PLUS no doctor visit!

Just wanted to post this in case it helps someone else. I hope it does!

Go to the doctor for antibiotics. use neosporin 3 times a day and warm moist compresses. My dad has one and it has swollen his upper lip and face. We went to doctor to day, it is not ready to drain , but the compresses will help it.

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I woke up 3 days ago with a painful feeling just inside the tip of my right nostril. I complained a lot about it all day but didn't think it was really a big deal except the fact that my husband and I are leaving in exactlly one week for a 3 week stay in Europe. Over the past two days it has gotten progressibly worse. It (the sore)is constantly draining and I cant keep my fingers off of it because I feel like EVERYONE is staring at it.It is very painful, red and seems like just really dry skin but again there is a constant flow of a clear leakage from it. THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! Somebody please tell me what to do

Hope this helps. When I get sore in my nose I use zovirax which is a cold sore cream!

trust me its the only thing that has ever worked for me and it took me about ten years or more of not knowing how to treat my sore nose before I worked this out!

I am so glad i googled this. It seems i've been living with pain not knowing others also get it. I had found that Betadine worked a treat for a while but with my latest nosr sore (ive had it about a month now) its not doing a thing. Can anyone tell me if Bactroban or Polysporin or any of the other ointments are over the counter (OTC) meds, or will i have to see my doctor about this? Thankd Chris

I'm 15, yes, I know, I am a young one but I've been dealing with MRSA that reoccurs often for the past year and a half and staph is nothing to mess with, I recommend seeing a dermatologist and asking for the highest stregnth anti-bacterial cream they have, because 1) its always good to have with MRSA making a quick come back and 2) it works better than any store brands. Good Luck and I hope all of our nose sores go away!

To say that these sores come from picking or pulling is ridiculous. These sores should be checked and the underlying cause established and treated. Often these sores are a painful symptom of an underlying auto-immune issue.

Its pimples inside the nose

I was having the same problem the last three weeks. I tried the Neosporin and Polysporin which gave limited improvement that didn't last. One of the answers here inspired me to try combining elements of treatment. Last week I mixed 50% Neosporin with 50% Bag Balm (actually a poor man's generic Udderly Smooth at the Dollar Tree) and apply with Q-tip a couple times a day. Works great for me! The Bag Balm provides a longer lasting and perhaps deeper skin penetration moisturizer and the antibiotic ointment goes with it and takes care of the infection. I had nothing to loose and am so pleased with the results. Also the tip of my nose feels so much better (younger?? - I am 51;-). Really, I am not joking about the tip of my nose feeling more subtle to the touch.

I did try Udderly Smooth by itself for a day or so and did not notice a real improvement. You might also try it with Vitamin E oil/cream as I think they are also a good skin penetrating moisturizer.

warm/hot washcloth dabbed inside the nose. also Peroxyl on a Qtip inside the nose (it has hydrogen peroxide). This is the only thing that worked after having them on and off for about nine or more months. The ENT didn't have any worthwhile advice other than to go to Yoga and breathe deeply. Tho the ENT did say it wasn't herpes.

I get similar sores based on your description and so does my wife. I the common factor that we have figured out with our sores are we get the sores after a few days to a week of using zyrtec. When we stop using the zyrtec the sores go away. When we start taking zyrtec after and take it for about a week the sores return. I would like to here if anyone else expiriances the same thing.

I was just at the doctor this week and described the same thing to him about my nose...its a staph infection he prescribed keflex

Well, this is the second time I have had the same problem. The clinic did not know anything and the Emergency room either. When i told them I was in tremendous pain and needed something to relieve it they looked at me like I was some kind of drug seeker and diagnosed it as Sinusitis. Turns out after doing some online research I was able to self-diagnose a case of SHINGLES which is very serious and painful for folks over 50 years of age. The inside of my nose had several pimples and pain was excruciating. It felt like I had a terrible Root canal, punched in the nose, headache & like someone poked my eye out. The doctors were useless other than signing a prescription for Acyclovir, an anti-viral med and finally some Tremadol pain killer. It took 10 days for the infection to clear.
Left untreated this condition can cause Blindness and very serious long term problems
I have had a separated shoulder, many surgeries and the nose pain was the worst and people look at you like you are some kind of idiot when you tell them you have a zit in your nose. In 2006 a vaccine was developed for Shingles and approved by the CDC and is according to reports : Under utilized. There is still much to be learned about the Shingle/ Chicken Pox virus.
THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE ! YOU CAN NOW HAVE INFO OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP THE COMMON PERSON.

So without being gross, if trimming nasal hair causes this (I get them all the time), how can I keep my nose presentable without risking getting these infernal spots?

If you are dealing with big noses please say out loud Jesus I accept you please heal me.
I know this will help

Sometimes I will get these when I have eaten
something that is a wrong combination or that has
something my body reacts to. One thing that gives
me weird bumps is of all things - McDonald's iced tea.
You can do an elimination diet by eating a very bland
diet and drinking only water or herb tea for a few days.
Then add one thing from your normal diet and observe
reactions. Continue to add foods till you see what is causing the problem. Also, are there any inhalants that could be a problem? Are you exposed to chemicals
at work?

You could have staph infection. Staph starts in the nose alot of times, and it looks like pimples. It is also very painful. Do not try to pop or mess with them! If one bursts you could get staph all over your entire face. Go see your doc immediately for a nose swab. Staph can be DEADLY

I have gotten them before and I agree a bit of hydrogen peroxide on a Q tip that has been wetted in water. Dab on the sore area and then as it healing, or if it is an open sore, use neosporin, or walmart carries it's own generic triple antibiodic. Keep fingers out of nose...if possible.

Hi,
Im going to bump this thread up as i have a similar problem.
It started in Feb were i was getting very bad sores and pimples in my nose expcially the inside of the tip, but id squeeze them out and slowly they would go, but give it week or two and it comes back again, and im still getting it! Since this time my nose feels and looks like its swollen up abit and i seem to have a slight breathing problem on left side of my nose, as if something is stuck up my nostril.
Has anyone else had this problem?