[blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

[Barbara Hammel]

You could try Pipi's idea or just have her lie down.  If she doesn't know 
how to sniff, try teaching her by covering her mouth with your hand--or with 
her hand--to show her how she takes in air with her nose when she can't 
breathe through her mouth.  I don't have any experience with this either as 
my kids would never tolerate that sort of thing.
I'd think even laying her on your lap with her head off of you so it's in a 
backward position--hoping that made sense--would help it run down the back 
of her throat.
Barbara




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-----Original Message----- 
From: Pipi
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:32 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Tips for Getting Toddler to Use Nasal Spray

I've never had any experience with doing this, but would having her hang
upside down while spraying accomplish anything?
Pipi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:18 PM
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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