Constant congestion for my baby - please help.

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Hi all, my 15 week old baby has had a constant blocked nose since she was 5 weeks old. We have tried everything from humidifier, steam, nasal sprays and suckers. Calpol plug ins etc... Nothing works. We've seen 3 different GP's all who say there's nothing they can do for a blocked nose. Every night my baby wakes up struggling to breathe through her nose and everynight I have to clear it for her. (The mucus is a pale green colour.) I'm going out of my mind that no one seems to have a solution.
We have no pets and no one smokes. We don't use fabric conditioner in our washing either.
The health visitor also seemed at a lost when everything she suggested we've already done or are doing with no improvement.
If anyone has experienced similar with their babies or anyone has any idea what this is then please respond. Anything at this moment would be beneficial as it's really starting to get me down. Thank you.

Some allergies like dairy can cause congestion.
If you're breastfeeding LO can react to the food you eat. One of my boys has had hayfever since he was a little baby, he was congested and snoring, no green snot though.

Its something which will stop on its own. My daughter was conjested at night. I used olbus oil on a handkerchief near her nose at night and it helped.

Baby Olbus

Nadal congestion, especially at night, as one of my sons biggest signs of a milk allergy OP

We had to manually unblock his nose every night and I'd be terrified he'd stop breathing or something as he'd often get a bit panicked and gaspy.

I EBF and after cutting dairy out of my diet completely, it went away and hasn't come back. He's almost 2 and still doesn't eat dairy but whenever he's accidentally come into contact with it, the blocked nose returns.

@LunaAndHerMoonDragons

Some allergies like dairy can cause congestion. If you're breastfeeding LO can react to the food you eat. One of my boys has had hayfever since he was a little baby, he was congested and snoring, no green snot though.

Thank you for your reply. My baby is bottle fed. The dairy allergy is one I will enquire about. Thank you.

@Asi1

Its something which will stop on its own. My daughter was conjested at night. I used olbus oil on a handkerchief near her nose at night and it helped.

Baby Olbus

Hi, we've tried everything but thank you. How old was your baby when she grew out of it?

@Missmonkeypenny

We had to manually unblock his nose every night and I'd be terrified he'd stop breathing or something as he'd often get a bit panicked and gaspy.

I EBF and after cutting dairy out of my diet completely, it went away and hasn't come back. He's almost 2 and still doesn't eat dairy but whenever he's accidentally come into contact with it, the blocked nose returns.

Thank you. We bottle feed so I would have to speak to the health visitor about next steps. Thanks again.

My son had/still had this (he is 6). He goes through windows now where doesn’t have it. When it is bad he is also waking up struggling to breather. He does not have a cold. He has too much mucus.

He side t have a milk allergy. He’s been extensively tested and they don’t know the trigger as to why. He’s been tested for multiple conditions (SF, PCD) all negative.

Then it randomly cleared up. Through specific intervention.

It is back again though.

You can’t guess which allergy, but there will be a trigger, somewhere. If it persists push for allergy testing.

I’m sorry I can’t offer advice for how to clear it. I also tried all those suggestions but they do not work. The only pattern I could spot was it was seasonal. It disappeared in summer.

Sorry that should read “it cleared up through NO specific interventions”. Sorry for my typo-littered post.

@KimDeals

My son had/still had this (he is 6). He goes through windows now where doesn’t have it. When it is bad he is also waking up struggling to breather. He does not have a cold. He has too much mucus.

He side t have a milk allergy. He’s been extensively tested and they don’t know the trigger as to why. He’s been tested for multiple conditions (SF, PCD) all negative.

Then it randomly cleared up. Through specific intervention.

It is back again though.

You can’t guess which allergy, but there will be a trigger, somewhere. If it persists push for allergy testing.

I’m sorry I can’t offer advice for how to clear it. I also tried all those suggestions but they do not work. The only pattern I could spot was it was seasonal. It disappeared in summer.

Thank you for your detailed response. Was your son born with the congestion? An allergy test will be the next step after looking into this milk allergy. It's interesting how your son's disappears in the summer.

@KimDeals

My son had/still had this (he is 6). He goes through windows now where doesn’t have it. When it is bad he is also waking up struggling to breather. He does not have a cold. He has too much mucus.

He side t have a milk allergy. He’s been extensively tested and they don’t know the trigger as to why. He’s been tested for multiple conditions (SF, PCD) all negative.

Then it randomly cleared up. Through specific intervention.

It is back again though.

You can’t guess which allergy, but there will be a trigger, somewhere. If it persists push for allergy testing.

I’m sorry I can’t offer advice for how to clear it. I also tried all those suggestions but they do not work. The only pattern I could spot was it was seasonal. It disappeared in summer.

When you said seasonal I immediately thought, hayfever, but that's worst in spring-summer.

There are soy formulas OP, you could discuss if its appropriate to trial one with health visitor or GP. Though that doesn't always solve the issue if it's a milk protein intolerance, LO might have the same reaction to soy. These aren't necessarily allergies or even traditional intolerances which are lifelong. If it's milk protein intolerance the majority of babies grow out of that by the time they're toddlers. Some information here www.completechildrenshealth.com/what-is-mspi/

Hi OP, no he wasn’t born with it. He ended up in hospital with bronchiolitis - I can’t remember exactly his ages in weeks, he was about 8 or 10 weeks old. He was completely blocked up suddenly.

It went away and we had no major snotty noses or breathing issues, until all of a sudden at about 11 months. Then it became very severe. Until he was 4, the investigations continued. He was diagnosed with asthma at 1. He was tested for hay fever, airborne seasonal allergies, specific tree allergies, grass allergy… nothing showed up apart from a mild egg allergy and peanut (peanut went away miraculously and we did the egg ladder so he is “free” from any allergy labels now). However the consultant said it probably WAS something seasonal, but we were missing it.

Did you ever get to the bottom of this please hun as I am currently going through the same thing with my little man x