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

spend lots of time in the bath where it is steamy and use vaseline to stop nose getting dry and sore

Put Olbas oil into your baby's bath to help with breathing

Putting vaporub on the soles of their feet works wonders for colds and snotty noses.

Depending on their age, Vick's Vaporub worked for my family

Lots of hot baths with the shower on! Steam is the best for unblocking little noses

I swear by Karvol - it always helped me as a child and it always helped me daughter when she was a baby.

play in the bath and inhale steam, also put a bit cream on their nose to stop it getting sore

A bit of Vicks under the nose is something that helped when I was a baby - so it is history repeating itself now!

Wrap up well & still go walking in the fresh air. Do not lie the youngster flat, raise them. A bowl of hot water with menthol or equivalent helps put moisture into the room. Lots of cuddles with the usual medicine etc.

We used to use a bowl of warm water with a few drops of Olbas Oil in it and it always worked wonders, also making sure the diet is not too dairy rich can also help. I was sensitive to dairy products as a child and being aware of this can also help.

I always use Calpol plug ins , they always help

Vaporub works wonders and a wet face cloth for undlocking noses...

Best thing to do is get them in the shower with lots of steam to help clear their airways...

Saline drops are better than you'd think - always helped my little one!

lots of warm baths, and even time in the bathroom when it is steamy helps. also using a very soft muslin rather than a coarse tissue.

A couple of drops of Olbas oil on a hanky out of reach seemed to work well as well as sitting in steamy bathroom having lots of stories and cuddles

Hiya, Calpol also do a saline spray suitable from birth. Works wonders. Sprays a fine mist up the nose to moisten and loosen the snot! Also have a bogey sucker.
You can also take baby into the bathroom with you when you have a hot shower and the steam will help the loosen the stuffiness.

I put Lipsol on their little noses as a gentle barrier and buy the softest tissues I can find. I also use a vaporiser at night with olbas oil. I offer plenty of fluids and hold them a lot. I also give them warm baths in a steamy bathroom with Johnson's Vapor bath.

Vicks/Calpol vapour plug-ins are fantastic and always helped our daughter through the night when she was poorly. They also double up as a nightlight for when they are a little older and scared of the dark.

I like to give my daughter a warm bath then I rub snuffle babe on her chest and back and also to the soles of her feet, then I use the calpol saline spray for clearing her nose.

Baby olbas was brilliant, along with putting a pillow underneath the mattress to keep head a little bit raised - seemed to help the sinuses drain.

Plenty of vaseline to keep skin from cracking and lots of menthol tissues on hand

Salty nasal drops and nice warm baths

Snufflebabe on their feet! Works a treat and a snot sucker - gross but strangly pleasureable job to do ;-)

Give them Calpol and saline nasal drops/spray thats suitable for infants. X