Natural ways to help decongest a baby with a cold

by Nancy O'Brien

When a baby comes down with a cold, parents often reach for over the counter remedies. It's easy to say you would never resort to that until you are there at 3:00 am with a crying little one who has not slept well for days...read more

by Sangay Glass

Tiny fingers...tiny toes...tiny airways...stuffed up nose. Until babies are 3-4 months old, they do all of their breathing through the nose. This can make life difficult during cold season, but here's the good news...g...read more

by Lisa Lemke

We all know how bad we feel when we have a bout of the common cold. Our nose is plugged, we have itchy watery eyes and our head feels enormous, and all we want to do is breathe. Now imagine not being able to blow your no...read more

by Lauren Beyenhof

A runny nose. Congested breathing. Wet-sounding coughs. Sounds like the baby has caught a cold. When older children and adults get sick, treating the problem seems easy. But when your baby has a cold with congestion, figur...read more

by R.L Hanlon

New babies are highly susceptible to colds and congestion. For the past nine months they've lived cocooned in an environment where the temperature is consistent and natural. Upon leaving this environment they now have cl...read more

by Callista Meyer

Infants struggle much more with a general cold than older children or adults. They have not began to understand how to breathe through their mouths instead of their nose, nor do they know how to blow their noses. Infants h...read more

by John Campbell

Decongestion is normally achieved in adults by the use of some kind of medication designed to relieve the symptoms of cold and flu, but for babies this is not an option. When your little one catches cold, it will usuall...read more

by Michael Lane

we all know how infants and adults alike suffer from colds and flu,and sometimes it will turn into something even nastier like bronchitus,well the most common and most natural remedy is pure HONEY,the egyptians used to swe...read more

by Eve Redstone

When we have a cold we often reach for the decongestant remedies to help us breathe, but we can't do this for our babies. These remedies are not safe for small children. There are natural things we can do for them though t...read more

by Nisha Danny

A bad cold could snatch away the restful night sleep of a baby. A runny nose, sneezing, difficulty to breathe and rarely wheezing would trouble a child more badly than adults. Gentle and natural ways of decongesting can...read more

by N. A. Hernandez

There is simply no way to guard your baby from ever catching the dreaded cold. Unfortunately children get sick several times a year and all you can do is try your best to ease the symptoms for them. Instead of always leani...read more