Talk to Cussons Mum & Me about your top tips for dealing with a snotty baby - you could win a £150 voucher plus a year's supply of Cussons Mum & Me products NOW CLOSED

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With cold season once again upon us, Cussons Mum & Me, a range of specially designed skincare and personal care products for Babies featuring a special Baby Bath to help Comfort Snuffles, would like to know about your top tips for relieving a baby with a blocked nose as well as your stories about blocked noses and babies.

Here's what Cussons Mum & Me have to say: "If your baby has a snuffle, it can sometimes be hard knowing what to do to help them. That's why we want to hear from you, the real experts. We listened to the voices of over 1000 mums to help design the Cussons Mum and Me range. The special Baby Bath to Comfort Snuffles with a gentle menthol fragrance, offers a different way to help comfort little noses, and soothe baby." All baby products are Paediatrician Approved and Hypoallergenic.

So, what are your top tips for helping a snotty baby? And please share your horror stories of baby blocked up noses on this thread.

Whatever your top tips are, Cussons Mum & Me would love to hear about it.

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a £150 shopping voucher plus a year's supply of Cussons Mum & Me products.

Please note your comments may be included on Cusson's Mum & Me social media channels, and possibly elsewhere, so please only post if you're comfortable with this.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

Putting a damp towel with a few drops of menthol on a radiator in baby's room. Dampness and menthol help to clear their noses.

the obvious vapour rubs etc but i found taking in the car seat and letting baby sleep upright made it much easier for them to breath.

I would say a nice bath and a nice rub on the back/belly :)

You can buy things that will suck the snot out of a baby's nose, I think one of them is literally called the Snoptsucker! I know it sounds icky, but they can't blow their noses, and getting some of the mucus out of their noses helps a lot!

Turn the shower on and then sit in the steamy bathroom with baby for 5 mins. It's amazing how much it helps to clear it.

Raise the head of the cot by putting some books under the mattress and also some olbas oil dropped onto the sheet.

My youngest suffered terribly with a blocked up nose and I did the following - bath in a steamy bathroom every night before bed, a pillow under her mattress to tilt her slightly (note - not a pillow that she could get to but UNDER the mattress) a vaporiser in the bedroom and vicks vapour rub on her chest and on a muslin hung over the cot.

A little vicks or olbas oil in an oil burner is fantastic for snotty babies, as are saline drops. I also put a little vicks on my own chest when breast feeding that seemed to help

Lots of extra soft large hankies and plenty of Vaseline

Olbas drops on the bedding (but not where it can make direct contact with the skin). used to work a treat when my boys were babies.

My babies both came up with a rash if I put any rub on their chests, so I had a burner with menthol or similar.
When they were very tiny, they slept on me so that they were more upright.
Scary when they can't breathe properly :(

drop of ecualyptas oil in warm water under radiator to circulate the air

Saline drops are great for unclogging stuffed up nostrils.

Oilbas oil on a hankerchief and place near babies cot but out of reach.
apply vaseline below nose as barrier against snots and chaffing from tissues as mum/ guardian/ carer wipes nose

Saline spray and tilting the cot mattress slightly so the baby's head is elevated.

I use baby wipes on their nose /face as the snot usually gets everywhere! and I use paracetamol if the baby has a fever. Usually its just a matter of comforting an upset little one who doesn't understand why they feel so rough :-( so lots of cuddles, plenty of fluids and wrapped up nice and warm and kept inside for a few days.