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

steam, olbas oil, saline drops, snot sucker. gross but effective. a humidifier in their room at night when its really bad, doesn't stop the snot & phlegm but loosens it so at least they can breathe comfortably.

A warm bath and a little help from my life-saving friend, Vics, in a bowl of hot water to vapourise the room

Use a wet wipe to wipe the nose as it's not so drying on the skin. Vicks on the soles of their feet and on the chest for coughs. Give them calpol or similar to ease their pain.

Fresh air. I swear their noses can be streaming in the house but as soon as we go out it seems to dry up.

For a newborn, raise the legs at the top of the cot.

Definitely Olbas oil on a muslin, the vapor plug in's and a smidge of Vaseline around the nose.

Balsam tissues

I think the best product to use at night (or during their day time nap) when the little one had got a nasty cold is an onion cut in half placed next to the bed/cot. It helps much better then saline drops or Vaporub. The next night the onion can be used again, but cut the onion a few times more.
Also raising their mattress slightly by putting a rolled up towel underneath the mattress at the top end helps when the snot is dripping into their throats and causing irritation that way.

suck the snot out of their nose! gross but it really works x

Call and lots of feeds. Little and often.

*Calpol

Wrapping baby up warmly and getting out in the fresh air. Clears nasal passages easily.

Patience, cuddles. Vaporub on soles of feet. Snot sucker device with filter on so you don't eat the snot!

When mine were little babes with a cold - they were much more settled in an elevated position in their cot crib/moses basket rather than lying flat at night. I used to put a small cushion or a rolled up towel under the mattress at the head end.

If baby is very little and can't have even gentle medicine, a drop of breast milk into a nostriles should help.

Steam is the answer for unblocking noses, and vicks vapour rub to try to keep it clear... I have used saline drops before today with a unblocking tool... but find it is difficult to get the little un to comply.

Sterimar Sea Salt water spray helped us very much

Vicks vapour rub works perfect for me

Creating steam by boiling a kettle in their room, or sitting them in a steamy bathroom helps clear stuffy noses really effectively.

we use to find a nice bath before bed and vaporub and some calpol - when really bad we use to put on a vaporiser

you cant beat good old fashioned steam! works a treat and loosens everything up letting them breathe so much easier - sit in bathroom with door closed and run the shower hot, your very own steam room! :-)

just keep wiping, but be gentle.

Alternate between tissue and wet wipes, to stop the nose area becoming sore!

I use to add some vapor rub to their clothing and pillow to help them have a good nights sleep.
I 've only just discovered Cussons Bath to which is perfect to use in conjunction with the balm!

Not sure how or why it works, but vicks on their feet with socks on top always seems to help mine.