Baby Swings: Saline Drops
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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.
5 1/2 Month Old with Stuffy Nose
Asked by T.M. from Denver
on April 28, 2008
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Does anyone have some advice on how to clear up my baby's nose? He is 5 1/2 months old and has a stuffy nose, sneezes and a little bit of a cough. The biggest problem ...
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- cut milk (and cheese) out of his diet (and yours if you are nursing). goat's milk is more nutritious and does not produce phlegm. grape juice helps cut through this s...
- Go out and buy some of the Johnson's soothing vapor bath and give your child a steamy warm bath with lots of this in it to start out. Make sure you've got his nose co...
- My 6 Month old son has the same thing for about the last week and a half now. What I do is at night I use a nose bulb to suck out his snot, give hime a bit of infant t...
My Little One Has a Bad Stuffy Nose
Asked by L.R. from Chicago
on April 3, 2010
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my daughter is three weeks old she had a stuffy nose since yesterday and today it seemed to be getting worse, i tried saline drops and vicks vaporizer and its not help...
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- I agree with the humidifier and bulb syringe. What helped my daughter more than saline was a few drops of breastmilk in each nostril. Sounds strange, but totally work...
- prop her crib mattress up from underneath so she is kind of sleeping at an angle. Also get a cool mist vaporizer. It won't make the stuffy noise go away, but it will...
- Saline drops help break up the mucus and suction it out as best you can without irritating her little nose. We have an electric one and the bulb one given to us from t...
7 Month Old Super Congested..
Asked by R.A. from Chicago
on December 1, 2009
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Anyone have any extra advice on helping with congestion? I have done the humidifier, warm shower steam, and saline drops in the nose. Going to try baby rub on the ba...
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- My 4-month-old has been like this nearly from birth. He has a "flappy vocal chord" thing he'll outgrow. Lots of phlem too, that often causes him to "choke," and I pop...
- We can blow our noses, but babies can't, so that is where the bulb comes in. You should have gotten one from the hospital when your baby was born. My pediatrician sa...
- Sounds like you're doing a great job! Keep up the the humidifier, warm shower steam, and saline drops. They really help a lot. To make it easier to breath elevate the...
9 Week Baby Has Mucus in the Throught at Night
Asked by J.F. from Washington DC
on August 18, 2009
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Since he was 2 weeks my baby has been waking up late at night squirming and crying from frustration because he can seem to get rid of the mucus in his throat. When he...
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- It could be that there is something in his room that he's allergic too. Or there could be something that you are eating that he's having issues with. I would ask the d...
- I had the exact situation with my son when he was 16 weeks. He caught a cold and then had lingering mucous for a month. He had to sleep upright in his swing or would ...
- It could be acid reflux. My son had severe acid reflux and he always had a congested sound to his breathing. The extra feeding could be helping by "rinsing" the thro...
Is It Ok to Let a Very Congested Baby Sleep Alone in Crib?
Asked by E.W. from Fresno
on January 2, 2012
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Hi, I've got saline drops and the sduction tube, I have a vaporizer with eucalyptus oil going but baby is still congested. She has always slept fine in her crib by he...
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- 1) For tonight... put her in her carseat to sleep. It will keep her propped up (like being in your arms, or as an adult when you need to sleep in the recliner with a h...
- Hi. I am so sorry your little one is going through this. You have received great advice, so I do not want to repeat too much: 1. I would definitely comfort her. Regar...
- Babies aren't good about breathing thru their mouth. I'd let her sleep with you so that she feels more secure. I'm an adult and get panic feeling when I wake up beca...
Baby's First Cold
Asked by K.C. from Nashville
on November 10, 2006
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My 5 and a half month old just got her first cold. The poor thing is all stuffed up. It gets worse at night, and she can hardly sleep.
I'm running a humidifier in her...
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- Tylenol now makes an infant tylenol with cold formula. It is pretty much the same as the regular just with a few ingredients to help with stuffy nose etc. Johnson an...
- When this happened to our little girl we had her sleep in her infant carrier because this elevated her and prevented the drainage to her ears...
- Try a vapor plug in - they work AWESOME!!! My 11 mth old just got over being really sick and I used one of those in his room. It made me want to sleep in there!!! T...
Baby's 1St Cold
Asked by L.H. from Allentown
on March 22, 2007
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My husband caught a cold and has shared it with me and our baby. She is not running a fever but has a little cough and sniffles. She is restless and just looks at me...
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- I've been told that even with Motrin they should not have that until 6 months old, that it should strictly be Tylenol until that point. I would also try a humidifier ...
- Hi L... I would use saline drops to clean out her nose. Also a humdifier~ we run one all winter long in my son's room. If you still have the nasel aspirator from the h...
- When my daughter got her first cold at 2 months, the biggest problem for her was sleeping. Since she was too small to take any medicines, and I wanted to make sure sh...
Mucus in Infant's Throat
Asked by D.S. from San Francisco
on May 24, 2010
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My 2 month old preemie son (8 days adjusted age) has been congested for the last 3 weeks. Since yesterday, he seem to have some mucus in his throat. He keeps swallowin...
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- We had the same situation. My daughter would choke on her own mucous so she ended up wearing a heart/lung monitor at night. It did turn out to be GERD/reflux, and she ...
- I don't know if this will help, but it certainly couldn't hurt--prop up the hear of his bassinet or crib so the mucous flows down. It always helped my son when he was...
- My sisters baby is doing the same thing. It sounds like your doing everything right. Keeping him upright is a big thing. I think you just have to wait it out, as sad a...
My 2 Month Son Is Very Congested!!
Asked by E.F. from Phoenix
on December 5, 2007
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Hello. My newborn son is about a week from 2 months now...and is very congested. Although he is my 3rd child I can't seem to get him to get rid of his congestion! I'...
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- Take him outside for a few minutes during the night, with a blanket :), that seems to help my kids. OR the hot steam shower.Good luck
- You can prop up one end of the crib mattress with a blanket or standard size pillow. You should only prop it up and inch to an inch and a half, so that he doesn't sli...
- Ask your Dr if you can use the Vick Vapor Plugs with a baby that young. If so they are wonderful, fill the air with that smell and help my kids a ton with congestion ...
