[blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

[Veronica Smith]

They say you should never spray a solution when laying down as it can go
into the lungs, drops are best for little ones.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Amanda Winkler
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:44 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
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
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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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