What to do if your child has a stuffy nose

It is definitely troublesome for parents if their children always have stuffy nose. Seeing their children suffer makes them uncomfortable too. Therefore, it is important to know the methods to relieve the problem of stuffy nose in children. First of all, you should pay attention to cleaning the debris in the nasal cavity and help breathing smoothly. If the problem is serious, you can use some medicines with relatively fewer side effects under the guidance of a doctor.

1. Clean up nasal debris

For children, once they have a stuffy nose, the first thing parents should consider is that it may be due to too much debris in the nasal cavity that blocks our nostrils, such as some nasal mucus. At this time, parents can use some other methods to help us clean the nasal cavity, such as using some special small cotton swabs to help children take out some nasal mucus in the nasal cavity, so that the child may no longer have a stuffy nose.

2. Cover your child’s fontanelle

Another situation is that once a child has a stuffy nose, it may be caused by a cold. So at this time, if the situation is not very serious and you want to relieve the stuffy nose, then one method is to warm the palms of our parents' hands and then place them on the child's anterior fontanelle. This way, after the child breathes for a while, it can help relieve the stuffy nose to a certain extent. However, if the cold is more serious, it is necessary to use medication to treat it in time.

3. Do replacement therapy

If your baby has severe nasal congestion that affects his breathing, you can use 0.5% ephedrine furacillin drops carefully under the guidance of a doctor. It usually takes a few minutes to work. However, ephedrine has side effects on babies and is not suitable for excessive or long-term use, so as to avoid causing atrophic rhinitis and affecting the olfactory sensitivity of the nose. If your baby has a lot of purulent nasal discharge, you can ask the doctor to do replacement therapy to clear out the purulent secretions in the sinuses. When giving medication to your baby, you must do so under the guidance of a doctor to avoid harming the baby's health.