[blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

[Veronica Smith]

The best thing is nasal drops not spray, this way you can have the child lay
on their back and drip them into the nose.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:18 PM
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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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