drainage of watery yellow fluid from nose

[hfd102]

Friday while I was bent over blow-drying my hair, bright yellow fluid suddenly started dripping out of my nose.  It felt like a nose bleed and that's what I thought it was until I observed the color.  I had never seen any fluid that color come out of my body before.  The drainage was unilateral--left side only.  I made an appointment with my doctor but cannot see her until Tuesday.  Investigating a bit onlne I saw something that seemed similar--CSF leakages.  But I have had no brain injuries, only a recent cold.  My question is--is this probably what I think it is?  Do I need to be very concerned?  Should I insist on seeing the doctor sooner or go to emergency?  What should I do in the meantime?  It hasn't happened again since then.  I'm really feeling a bit scared.
Thanks so much
Heidi

[HMCramer]

I had the same thing happen numerous times. The first time (about 10-12 years ago) was after a minor head injury. Although I never saw a doctor about it, I believe that may have created or cracked something. Regardless, after that event I never had any other problems. Until studying abroad. Because I believe the discharge is linked to my sinuses I think it has been happening more recently do to a combo of new pollen and pollution. Coming from an agricultural part of Oregon and currently living in Tokyo that is my assumption.

As a note. Mine also always comes from the left side when I am bending down.  

[Whilotus]

Same thing happened to me just now. I bend down to get my books from the bottom shelf and all of a sudden yellow fluid ran down my right nose. It was yellowish colour and sticky. It drips only when I bend.
I had very unusual pain mostly on the right side of my head and face all day. I feel that it may have been caused by sinusitis. In our traditional medicine, the doctors usually advise patients with sinusitis to avoid sugary food. And I have experimented the doctor's claim and I found out it to be so true. I don't usually fancy ice cream but yesterday I had too much and then resulted with sticky yellowish fluid. I remember experiencing same thing some time back.

[MamaD18]

I just had this same thing happen. I've been recovering from being sick for about a week and half or so now. I was blowing my nose this morning just to make sure I was getting all the flem out of my sinuses and instead it was this liquidy yellow discharge. I kept blowing it out because I assumed it was something that wasn't suppose to be in there and that my sinuses were draining out the bad stuff. However, after I stopped blowing my nose it continued to drip down onto my bathroom sink and my sleeve. I didn't realize it was doing it on its own. It was only from the left nostril. Hopefully everything is okay. From what everyone is saying it seems like some of it is alright. I'll see how long it persists. If no one else can give me a concrete answer and it happens for a long enough time I suppose I'll just have to go see a doctor, though I have no insurance and I'm pregnant right now so I really can't afford to be spending any money on anything unimportant. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know!!

[pantitmilye]

hi. how are you all feeling. my concern is that that yellow fluid first came out of my nose when I accidentally bumped my head on someone when I was playing volleyball. and there was three more instances and the last one was when I was hit by a basketball in the head yesterday. and today my left nose where the fluid came is clogged, can someone help of by telling of something about this yellow fluid

[nurserkirk]

Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) is CLEAR; it has a high content of GLUCOSE, not sodium, so if it tastes salty it is NOT CSF.  Any fluid that comes out of your nose that is bright yellow is most certainly NOT CSF;

[Josh0001]

HABANERO!!!! My girlfriend just blew her nose this morning and bright yellow mucus came out, initially. She has been sick for a week or two and I figure its just the bacteria trying to reestablish in the sinuses. I got her to lick a habanero pepper that I sliced right down the middle. She didn't flood with mucus as I hoped (to flush the sinuses), instead she just said her tongue burned. She blew her nose again a few minutes later and nothing really came out aside from a small amount of completely clear sticky mucus, THEN>>>>>>> the yellow "bloody nose". After saying wow for a minute or two, I found this site. Thought the info might help someone. I hypothesize a few things but in general it seems that the caspiasin(?) of the pepper helped produce fluid (uh, duh). You know that runny nose after eating something hot? This time it brought the yellow bacterial residue with it on its way out. Before the pepper, it was that nasty weak yet tacky yellow form of bacterial snot, after it was translucent yellow. Is it progress?