Imagine sitting in the fourth quarter of a championship basketball game, or in the last stretch of a final math test, when an intense nosebleed starts and you have no way to stop it. That was my reality for years. I stuffed tissues into my nose and pinched it, with nothing else to stop the bleeding or let me get back to what I was doing.
The problem stayed on my mind, and I could not find a solution, so I decided to build one. I wanted a device small enough to carry anywhere, simple enough for anyone to use, and designed to treat the source of the bleeding. That device is Instaclot, a compact nasal system that combines a bleeding-absorbing material with a liquid treatment in one easy-to-use design.
After more than two years of research, testing, and over 40 prototypes, I filed a provisional patent in August 2026 as the sole inventor. Nosebleeds affect athletes, children, families, and schools every day, and most people have no fast, reliable way to stop them. I built Instaclot to change that.