[blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

[Pipi]

this sounds way more humane than the way i put it.
Pipi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amanda Winkler" <awcactuscat1 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray


> You might try having her lay down on the floor on her back and spray it up 
> her nose. Keep her there for a few minutes.  Since she will more than 
> likely cry have a tickle session keeping her on her back.
> hth
> Amanda
>
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> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 11:18 AM
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> Subject: [blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray
>
>> Hi.  My three-year-old is on antibiotics for a sinus infection.  She's 
>> also supposed to use a saline nasal spray two or three times a day. 
>> She's fine at swallowing the medicine, and not uncooperative about using 
>> the spray, but I can't figure out how to get her to draw the saline 
>> solution up into her nose while breathing in, so it just runs right out 
>> and goes into her mouth or down her chin.  I tried to tell her to sniff 
>> like a dog, but it didn't work.  Have any of you come up with an 
>> effective way to get your child to use nasal spray?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
>> of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been 
>> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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