How to clean nose newborn

Lavage of the nose of the child — the procedure is extraordinary. Hold it should be only on the advice of a doctor. If the child had a cold, first of all, contact your pediatrician, even if no fever. Runny nose in infants can be functional. In this case, it usually goes away without any outside interference. But it happens that the accumulated mucus it interferes with normal breathing. In this case, the doctor may advise to wash the nose.

You will need

• -rubber bulb;
• a syringe without a needle;
• -a special saline solution or salt.

Instruction

1. Before you wash the nose, remove out mucus. This can be done using a small rubber bulb, which must be in your medicine Cabinet. Baby, this procedure may not like, and generally washing out the nose. But to make it necessary, otherwise all the efforts will go in vain. The solution will simply drain back.
2. Special children's saline you can buy at the pharmacy. Usually they are several kinds and you can choose the one that more than all the other matches both your goals and the age of the baby. Exactly follow the instructions. If a suitable tool in the sale will not, make it yourself. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt in a liter of water. To prepare the water and can take hot, but before the procedure it must be cooled down to room temperature.
3. Prepare the syringe. It is better to take a little diabetic in 5 ml, how much solution you'll need. The needle should be removed. If you only have a larger syringe, carefully monitor the amount of liquid.
4. Baby put to the side. Water pour weak streams first in one nostril, then the other. If the nose is stuffed up, the child's mouth is usually open, but this must be traced. Observe that the baby choked on a solution. If it happened suddenly, put his hand on my stomach and a little Pat on the back.
5. If the doctor prescribed drops, put them after washing. In self to do dangerous, baby suit, not all the medications that treated adults or even older children.