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What Are Your Best Home Cold Remedies?
I can say that I have never been a fan of giving my son cold medicine and now with the recalls and ... Gentle pats on the back to break up chest congestion ...
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- When we were kids, if we were congested my M. would give us onion juice to break it up. You slice an onion and layer sugar-onion slices-sugar-etc. in a bowl. Cover th...
- Hi Mary, Vicks vapor humidifier and having her at an incline at night so she could breathe. We also got these vapor mist things that you plug into an outlet and wh...
- I was told by a M. in my MOPS group to put full strength vicks vapor rub on their feet and put socks on while they go to bed. It is suppose to stop night time coughin...
What causes my 18 months old to cough without a cold?
No cold, just the cough and a wheezy chest. His pediatrician has him on albuterol. It is an asthma medicine, but he only takes it when he gets a wheezy ...
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- Hi K., I know I'm late responding but I always run the cold air humidifier when my son has a cold. It helps keep the stuffiness down and it keeps his airways moist. ...
- I too try to be natural and my son had a cough for months, it felt like, with no other symptoms. It did subside. I use homeopathic Briar Rose to help fend off cold an...
- Is he a mouth breather or a nose breather, you can tell is his mouth open alot, it might be he has a dry throat, or allergies , just to be sure doctors check up should...
3 Month Old with Cold
Read all 26 responses: "I have a 3 month old who has a really bad cold. ... The breathing machine helped break up the congestion in his chest that was ...
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- I remember those days of feeling helpless with my little girl was sick. Try to make sure you're running a cold mist humidifier in her room, don't use any vapor meds as...
- For my son, the drops didn't do anything. Instead, we use saline flush/irrigation. These can be bought at Walgreens. The one I use is by NeilMed, called Sinus Rinse...
- Keep up the saline drops. Use them several times a day and use a bulb syringe to suck out the loose stuff. Also, run a cool mist humidifier in her room. The better ...
Help, My 15 Month Old Has a Cold
Read all 25 responses: "Hi moms, my 15 month old son has a terrible cold ... You can rub in on his chest AND his FEET. (This can also help with coughing). ...
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- Hi P., Use a humidifier in his room at night and during naps. I really like the Pediasure Vapor plug ins. They really help with the congestion and let them get some...
- Milk actually produces more mucus, so when they have a cold, it's best to cut way back on that. Try pedialyte. Popcicles. Jell-o. Chicken soup. You can even make some ...
- When my boys were little, I gave them Triaminic to relieve congestion. My three-year-old once described it with a frown: "It looks like pee-pee and it tastes yucky!"...
Sick Toddler
Anyway, I thought she might have Croup, but the doctor listened to her lungs/ chest and said she has a chest cold and an ear infection. ...
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- Hi, I remember when I had the same experience and it took our dr 2 months to determine my daughter had an ear infection. We were told the night cough was caused by ash...
- oh my dear- i dont want to scare u but when my julia was only two weeks old i went to my sisters home (she had 13month twins) and julia became sick in a couple days. E...
- K., I belong to a wholesale online company that has an oil you can put into you humidifier that works wonders. Also sometimes after they get this way they develop ...
My Baby Is Sooo Sick
It really helps the babies sleep with a cough and cold. There is also a vicks baby rub that you rub right onto the chest to loosen up the phlem. ...
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- What you can do is take her back to the doctor to check to see if she has pneumonia or if she has some type of virus that goes away on its on
- it sounds like a cold or teething, just remember that as long as the babys fever goes down with medicine, its just a virus or teething. she will be fine. just give he ...
- She's too young to get any type of medicine that's why the DR will just let it ride itself out. There is Infant Children's Tylenol and Motrin and Advil for baby's now,...
Baby with Rash and Cold Symptoms
If you think about it when we get a cold we have a lot of drainage and if it continues to go down our throats we sometimes get a chest cough also. ...
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- I too am very careful with germs. My mother and I both push washing hands. We keep a ton of wet ones around and have the kids wash their hands and face with them ver...
- Well as a daycare provider and mother of 4 I know first hand that the first year will be full of colds!! I keep a pretty clean house,have the kids and myself wash hand...
- My SIL just told me a couple of days ago that there is a virus going around the schools that makes the kids cheeks get rosy. I think it had a fever with it too though....
Phlegm
Is it due to post nasal drip, or does he have a chest cold. If it is post nasal drip, you treat that and it will minimize the coughing. ...
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- My daughter had the same problem, since kids that age can not cough out the plegm it is very hard to clear it up. So I gave her Homepathic medicine, which also does n...
- Since my daughter was allergic to milk she was never on milk or dairy products and she still had a cough during winter. It would start mid September and be off and on ...
- I immediately thought of two things: asthma and lactose intolerance. I'd start by switching to soy milk for two weeks and see if that clears things up. If not, talk...
Cough but No Cold
She doesn't have any symptoms of a cold or the flu. I don't want to take her .... This will help loosen up the chest congestion and help her to cough up the ...
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- If she is starting to vomit from the coughing, it is definitely time to go to the doctor, especially since it's getting worse. You certainly don't want this to develop...
- I know my 3 kids cough with allergies.My cousin and my niece cough so bad they throw up and thiers is asthma/allergies.Try giving her claritin.That is what the doctor ...
- Do you have animals in the house. It almost sounds like allergies. How long ago did the cough start? Does the cough keep her awake at night? It might be well worth it ...
Should I Take Her to the Doc?
S., take your daughter to the doctor NOW!!! there is no such thing as a "deep chest cold". take it frome me, i thought the same thing...and this led to my ...
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- If she can't breathe when she coughs, sounds weezy while she does or has a barking cough, you really need to take her in as soon as possible. If it's more of a I want...
- Take her to the doc today. Don't worry about 'bugging the doctor'.....that's their job. The cough could turn to pnuemonia as well. Or she could have RSV. Or bronch...
- S., take your daughter to the doctor NOW!!! there is no such thing as a "deep chest cold". take it frome me, i thought the same thing...and this led to my daughter e...
