[blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

[Amanda Winkler]

Pipi,
I think this would be a good idea for an older child or adult who are going 
to apply the spray themselves. Just lay on the bed with your head over the 
edge. **smile**

Amanda

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From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:35 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

> 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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>> 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
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>>> 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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