Allergies Medications: Saline Drops
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Infant with Allergy?
Asked by A.S. from Austin
on December 22, 2008
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My 6 month old seems to have some kind of allergy from the weather. We went to trail of lights on sat, the wind was blowing and the weather was humid but not cold, an...
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- Sounds like a cold. My son gets them very easily and the last one turned into a bad ear infection. When he is congested we elevate his bed and us the humidifier. We ha...
- Basically it's not good to take tiny ones out when it's windy. That is wisdom passed on from experience from both my grandma and my mom. There's all kinds of stuff blo...
- Hi A. This happen to me too. She couldn't breath and wized alot. I found a medice called pedicare in a white box with red on it. It works great. It works so well...
Best Medicine for 6 Month Old
Asked by W.W. from Houston
on December 8, 2008
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My 6 month old has a runny nose and a cough for the third time this year. The first and second time I took her to the pediatrician she told me to give her saline drop...
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- There's not much you can do. (Castor Oil will only make her stools runny, which she probably already has with all the mucous in her system). She's too young for any o...
- My daughter is 3 and for the first two years we dealt with the same thing. You need to let it runs its course. Her immune system will get stronger. This year my daught...
- vicks baby rub works great, johnson's vapor bath, I have found decongestion drops (not just saline) for infants at babies are us. Is she a big baby or small one? My so...
Milk Allergy or Reflux Please Help
Asked by B.V. from Biloxi
on December 4, 2009
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My 6 week old has had excessive mucos in his nose and throat which has been causing him to gag for the past 4 weeks. He drinks 4 oz every 2 hours, he does not make it ...
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- my daughter had this- I had to add cereal to her bottle. she also continue to bring this back up and finally at 9 mos old switched her to powdered milk with cereal a...
- I know the diagnosis sounds weird, but our daughter had a cough caused by post-nasal drip, and a barium swallow finally did show it to be reflux. Looking back I know ...
- My son had severe reflux when he was a baby. What appears to be mucus is really the sucretions (sp?) that the acid is pushing back up. The milk actually soothes the re...
Cold Medicine
Asked by S.K. from Pittsburgh
on July 28, 2008
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I was wondering if anyone can recommend a decongestant that is safe for a young child to use. My son just turned 4 last week & is at the beginning stages of a cold th...
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- Hi S.. I have always used Dimetapp Products (Cold & Cough or Allergy) for my girls. The only side effects I have noticed from it is that in two of my girls it makes ...
- Hi S.! I have a 4 year old as well. Our pediatricians don't recommend using cold or cough medicine at all. My little one was recently sick, and I just gave her Jr....
- You got good responses so far,I add a few drops of tea tree oil in the vaporizor with my kids and it works great.We do use Dimetapp for stuffy noses when they need it....
Milk Allergy or Reflux Please Help!!!!
Asked by B.V. from Albuquerque
on December 4, 2009
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My 6 week old has had excessive mucos in his nose and throat which has been causing him to gag for the past 4 weeks. He drinks 4 oz every 2 hours, he does not make it ...
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- My daughter did the same thing because she was lactose intolerant so while I nursed I could not have any lactose and when I could no longer nurse we used a lactose fre...
- My 13month old son also has excessive mucus due to the nasal gastric tube he has. They have prescribed reflux medication to prevent his gagging too. Although our situ...
- It sounds more like an allergy than reflux to me. I assume you are using formula so perhaps try a different one and/or get a second opinion. If you have the money, c...
Giving a Preschooler Daily Allergy Medication
Asked by D.B. from Dallas
on March 27, 2010
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My Doctor has prescribed my son (who will turn 2 in 2 days) Zyrtec to take daily. have other moms had good experiences with their preschool kids on Zyrtec? My son has...
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- If you do start to give regular doses of Zyrtec, be very aware of his behavior/attitude and look for changes. I started my son on zyrtec when he was four and his anxi...
- Zyrtec is prescribed/recommended a lot nowadays. You can look online about its side-effects. There are other types of allergy med's, for kids. What works for one ch...
- my oldest(5yrs) has been taking zyrtec for 3 years now. it made him sleepy at first and now not so much. he also takes nasonex?sp every day. since he was 2 also. every...
Cold Medicine for 16 Month Old
Asked by C.E. from Cincinnati
on January 26, 2009
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Hi Moms! I need some personal advice on giving a 16 month old cold medicine. My daughter is very congestion and coughing like crazy. She kept us up all night last n...
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- Sounds like what my 21 months old son is going through right now. It is not recommended to give them any cough medicine under the age of 2. This is what I've been doin...
- If you haven't done so already, take her to the doctor, especially since she is coughing so hard she pukes. It may be something more serious than a cold. They also m...
- I know the medical community says not to give infants cold medicine, but I have been in the same boat you are now. You may want to try Robitussin. My daughter is 17 mo...
Infants Cold Medicine
Asked by B.A. from Washington DC
on May 16, 2008
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We went to the doctor today and he just has a cold, not much you can do and gave me all the advice that all of you had said and said that if he got a fever worse than ...
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- Please don't give your child a dose of medicine without talking to your pediatrician, especially if it is not infant medicine. Even then you need to use a real measur...
- Dosage is completely dependant on weight. From advice of my pediatrician 1 1/2 years ago I gave my 8 month old benydryl. It was a life saver. Again not knowing the ...
- Hi I work in a Pharmacy and I'm a mother of 2. Let me just tell you that it all depends on the weight AND age... depending on what medication you give them and what s...
7Wk Old with Cold
Asked by C.M. from Madison
on March 26, 2008
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My 7wk old boy has his first cold and is vary stuffed up. I have a humidifier and saline drops for his nose. Any other advice on how to releive his stuffyness would be...
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- what i do when my little man has a cold is use a lot of the vick's baby chest rub. put it on his chest, back, neck, and believe it or not on the bottoms of his feet. i...
- I was always told to take my child into the bathroom with me when I shower. The steam helps them. You can put him in his little boundy seat right outside the shower.
- My friend would let her baby sleep in his swing because it kept him upright and it was easier for him to breath. He had a lot of colds starting at 3 months.
Baby Congestion
Asked by A.W. from Kansas City
on January 25, 2007
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My son is 5 months old and his nose has been congested for about 1 1/2 weeks. I suction and give him saline drops but nothing loosens it up. I thought it might be a sy...
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- use a humidifier at night. I have to do this with my dd at teh moment since she's bene this way all week and its helped TONS. and juice and water, no formula
- Go see the doctor. RSV is a very common virus and this is a bad time of year for it, and it can get out of control easily. Most children have it sevearl times by the t...
- I would give it more time. Make sure he doesn't get a fever because the doctors say fever in babies under 6 months is usually not a good thing! If it starts to reall...
