thread: What was that alternative to saline nasal spray?

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  1. #1
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    Oct 2006
    Sydney
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    What was that alternative to saline nasal spray?

    I remember reading a while back about a product that helps to clear a baby's nose? Can someone help me out with this please?
    I have been up with Phoebe for about an hour and a half as she wouldn't feed back to sleep because she couldn't breathe properly. I tried the spray and she screamed her little head off and it didn't work anyway.

  2. #2

    Nov 2007
    Earth
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    What about a nasal aspirator - a bulb with a sucky bit at the end...

  3. #3
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    Mar 2006
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    Snacks - I never use the saline that comes with FESS for little noses, I just use the aspirator. But if it is stubborn thick mucous, try sitting her in a steamy room to help loosen it and then suck it out with the aspirator.

    MG

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    Oct 2006
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    Thanks girls... I remember reading a thread ages ago where someone mentioned something for blocked noses and I thought to myself, must remember that for winter... Damn, wish I had've written it down. LOL!
    Thanks, Berenice - I've got the aspirator but it seemed like really thick-set stuff. Nothing was coming out with the aspirator.
    Totally forgot about steam, MG! (Was the middle of the night and it's summer for goodness' sake, so I suppose I can be forgiven). I'll dig out the vaporiser for tonight methinks.

  5. #5
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    Feb 2007
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    another trick is if you warm up your forehead with something as simple as a warm hand will unblock any stuffed nose.

    Liz

  6. #6
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    Jan 2009
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    Snacks not sure if you are BFing but a drop of BM up each nostril will clear it(do one nostril at a time)