When the baby does not sleep well at night, begins to eat poorly and be naughty, then the boogers or runny nosethat do not allow the baby to calmly rejoice at the first discoveries and knowledge of the world. Question about, how to clean the nose of your newborn baby from gnats or snot excites every new mother. And for good reason, because only a mother can help a baby in this matter and it is not so easy to do this.
Cotton flagella, pear, aspirator and aquamaris for nose cleaning
With cotton buds, this is not recommended:
- Firstly, because it may not be safe - the baby’s tiny nose and airways may be smaller than the size of a cotton ball on a stick. And inexperienced mothers can just stick their wands deeply.
- Secondly, brushing your nose with dry cotton wool is an unpleasant process.
But how to clean the stuffed nose of a newborn so that it does not turn into torture for both of you? There are more loyal, enjoyable, and safer ways to solve such a delicate problem.
Cotton Flagella
It will be much easier to clean the nose with homemade flagella from cotton pads than the same cotton flagella sold in a pharmacy. This is because the cotton pad does not spread like cotton wool.
So, take a cotton pad, tear it into two parts. Leave one part (half) the next time, and tear the other two more and then again two parts. From this whole half of the disk, four parts came out. Of these, twist the flagellum. But, before proceeding to clean the nose, it is advisable to moisten this flagellum with warm boiled water or breast milk. In the process of cleansing the airways, the crumbs need not only to put the flagellum in the nose, but to scroll it so that the goats “wound” on it.
We clean a nose with a pear
Every mother should know how to clean a nose from goggles with a pear. Her i.e. Pear, you can buy at any pharmacy.
To soften the crusts in the nose, first drip it with breast milk, saline or special nasal drops. Before use, rinse the pear thoroughly. Then squeeze it in your hand so that air comes out of it. After carefully insert into one nostril and slowly open your hand. No sharp movements can be made, but if you do everything too slowly, then there will be no result. After extracting the formations from the nose, the pear should be washed immediately.
We remove the boogers with an aspirator
Next, consider how to clean the nose with an aspirator. It is advisable for such purposes to purchase a device in the pharmacy for eliminating snot and gnats, which are similar to the good old method of exhausting them by mouth or pear.A device of this design allows you to carry out the procedure hygienically and if you compare it with a pear, then the effect will be much better. And the child will not be uncomfortable with this process, because in this case the unpleasant sensations will become slightly ticklish.
You need to put a small plastic tube to the nostril of the child, which is previously connected to the container. Take the second tube into your mouth and make a suction movement. Done. All the contents of the spout will be in the container. But do not forget to drip it with saline or brush it with baby oil before cleaning the nose.
We read a detailed article and various types nasal aspirators
Aquamaris versus nasal congestion
Aquamaris is an excellent tool for softening the crusts and moisturizing the nasal mucosa. With it, you can clean the baby’s nose from unnecessary formations.
But here, too, you need to know all the nuances and in order to properly clean the spout with Aquamaris and remove everything superfluous from it.
This drug is not recommended for children up to a year to be injected into the nose, namely bury, because the airways of the newborn are thin and tiny, and the use of the spray can lead to it getting into the inner ear.
The composition of Aquamaris includes trace elements that support the normal physical condition of the mucous membrane. It flushes and removes street and indoor dust without problems.
From the first day of life, children are instilled with two drops in each nostril four times a day. After instillation, it is not necessary to get the formed mucus with flagella. After a short time, all softened boogers themselves approach the tip of the nose and can be easily wiped with a soft handkerchief.
Instead of a conclusion ...
Probably every expectant mother at least once heard from her mother or grandmother instructions on how to clean the nose of a newborn from boogies, but when it comes to practice, this no longer seems so easy. At first, this always turns out to be difficult, but then you will do such procedures without problems without fear and much work.
And to reduce the formation of dried crusts in the nose of a beloved child, pediatricians recommend monitoring hygiene in the room where the baby is and not abusing the heaters. Excessive dust and stale air negatively affect the mucous membrane even in an adult, not to mention newborn babies. And most heaters can dry the air, and the airways also dry out with them.
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The child needs to clean the nose, the milk accumulates in the newborn there, I cleaned my nose with a special pear, pulled very well from the nose, now my daughter is 2 years old and we still clean the nose. Various “chemical” agents are not desirable for the child, they may help, but better in other ways.
They invent different drugs and methods that would only make money on the consumer. Maybe Aquamaris is better than just a cotton swab, but not to the extent they are painted ...
and in a previous article it was written that milk should not be used!
All this is wonderful, but you shouldn’t drip breast milk there and you can get not very pleasant complications, like my relative did.
How easy it is in the article))))
It’s as if the child is directly given to do it ...
My child is screaming wildly from an aspirator, and on the forums they write that such a reaction is very common in infants to this device. Not a single booger coils such nerves and tantrums of her beloved child.