Tips & Tricks for Toddlers with Colds

I hate when my boys are sick. They tend to uproot the whole house in a single weekend! We are dealing with the Snot Wars now. While it's fresh on my mind, Here are a few tips for the next time your little one starts sniffling.

1. Invest in an Otoscope. It's a scope Doctors use to look in ears. With a little practice, you can become seasoned at looking for ear infections. I found ours at Walmart for $15.00!

 

 

 

2. Invest in a little nose suctioning device we like to call, "The Snogger." It's actually called The Nose Frida, and believe me, It works!

 Basically, it's a snot sucker with a filter, and then a tube attatched. These are NOT for the faint of heart, because the other end of the tube has a mouthpiece. (You know where this is going.) To put it bluntly, you manually suck out the boogies. BEFORE YOU GO VOMIT, only know YOU WILL NOT GET ANYTHING IN YOUR MOUTH! It actually won't even come close to your mouth...because of the filter and the tube.

 It DOES however, make a rather nasty slurping sound. As if you were drinking the last of a smoothie. (Hee hee! No more Smoothies for you!) I don't know what I'd do without mine. If you can clear the nasal passages, ear infections are lowered and they recover faster.

The cool thing about this is, that it's so FAT that you can't jam it up into their nose.

 

3. Vick's VapoRub. Awesome stuff!

 

4. Saline Spray. It helps to dry up the snot. They actually have a grape flavored kind with a button sprayer.

 

5. Humidifier. We actually don't use one here, because the humidity in South Louisiana is high, but in a dry climate, you might need one.

 

5. Thermometer. I use a regular digital thermometer.

 

I usually suction the nose, then use saline spray, and at night Vick's VapoRub.

 

If you find that you need something to ease a cough, Hylands makes a COUGH & COLD syrup. They also have COUGH & COLD Nighttime