What to do if your one-month-old baby has a stuffy nose

For newborns, once nasal congestion is caused by a cold, it can easily lead to poor breathing. Especially when breastfeeding, the child tends to cry, refuses to take milk, and even sometimes chokes and coughs and bruises his lips. A one-month-old baby with a stuffy nose should follow the steps below. First, use a warm wet towel on top of the baby’s nose to apply a hot compress, twice a day for about fifteen minutes each time. Second, the correct way to squeeze the nose is to clamp one side of the nose and gently squeeze out the secretions from the opposite side of the nose. Third, when removing nasal scabs, do not pick the baby’s nose, so as not to damage the tender nasal mucosa, causing bleeding and infection. The correct method is if the nasal scabs block the nostrils, can be used to disinfect a small cotton swab, gently roll it up, if the nasal scale in the nasal cavity deeper, can first use saline, cool water or breast milk into the nostrils of a drop or two, so that the scabs slowly moist and soften, and then gently squeeze the nose, prompting the scabs to gradually fall off, and then disinfected swabs will be rolled out of the nasal scabs. Fourth, let the child to increase drinking water. Air-conditioned rooms should be placed in a humidifier to increase indoor humidity and prevent nasal dryness. Fifth, you can massage the bilateral Yingxiang acupoints for one minute to two minutes, which can also effectively relieve nasal congestion.