Respiratory: Child, Princess

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My Baby Has a Cold

My 8 1/2 week old little girls has a cold. She has mucus in the back of her throat and in her nose. Yesterday she started the coughing which means it has moved to her chest. Last night when I put her to bed it sounded like she was choking so I decided to put her in bed with me so if she did start to choke I would be right there. (She usually sleeps in a bassinet right next to me.) My question to you Mommies is what can I do to help her get over this cold faster? We adults would take some cold medicine and call it a day but what do you do...

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Allergy to Earrings? When to Repierce My 5 Year Old's Ears?

My 5 year old daughter has a lot of food/evironmental allergies.... she gets a terrible rash around her eyes and behind her ears. Well, I don't know if it was because of her normal allergy rash behind her ears, or if she was allergic to the metal in the earrings (I'm confident she needs nickel free), but I had to take her earrings out because they were so crusty and gross. We cleaned them with hydrogine peroxide and left the earrings out to let the wounds heal (it was like a cracked, crusty, open rash). You can tell where her earrings holes...