the doctor isnt open until monday, is there anything to worry about? i can feel it in her chest when i pat her back and when she crys. she sounds almost like she wheezes when she breathes .. it sounds mucousy. What should i do?
2007-12-14 16:22:40 · 5 answers · asked by ♥Kristen♥ 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
shes 7 weeks
2007-12-14 16:34:01 · update #1
Cough medicines won't really help. I would give her some Tylenol, get a vaporizer out and place at her bed. Get some baby Vick's vapor rub and put on her chest. Some saline nose spray and a snot sucker will help to loosen up nose congestion and get the snot out. Take her in the bathroom and close the door. Use the tub or shower to create some steam, and that might help her breathe better. When you get a sinus infection or cold, you have to keep your air ways moist not dry. Make her drink plenty of water to help secrete the mucus. Hope this helps.
2007-12-14 16:30:45 · answer #1 · answered by singingbamagal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have a cool mist humidifier or a waterless vaporizer....use them at night in her room. Also, you can use saline drops in her nose and a bulb syringe to clear the nose.... If it is only in her chest...and she acts like she is having a hard time breathing...or if she is just not acting right - or feverish.... You should call your pediatrician - (They should have an on-call number) - if not....and you are worried....go to the ER or something. (just to be safe....NO CONCERN IS STUPID when it comes to your child) you know your child best....and if you are concerned, you should go to the ER. If it were my baby - I would try the saline and the humidifier - or vaporizer. I probably wouldn't sleep well all night - because I would be constantly checking on her breathing.... and if for any second I thought her breathing was labored....I'd take her in. Good luck!
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well, IF you hear wheezing and mucousy - I would probably take her on in (I guess I forgot you had said that in your question until I read it again.... You are the best judge for your baby - you know when she isn't feeling right....)
2007-12-14 16:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Brandy C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take her in the bathroom and shut the door and run the shower hot and steamy and just sit in there with her. Also if you live in a cool climate or it is a cool nite take her outside covered up of course and the cool fresh air will help her breathe. get humidity into the house with a humidifier or boil water on the stove.
2007-12-14 16:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GET HER TO A HOSPITAL NOW!!
I had this when I was an baby its called the crupe she will wake up in the middle of the night and have shortness of breath and can become very close to dying from suffocatin its a sickness that deveops for 1the first year and is there version of the cold take her to the hospital or youll be sitting in the e.r. seeing her on a respurator having oxygen sent to her phssically!! GO GO GO
2007-12-14 16:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by Logan Duckett 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
GET SOME SALINE DROPS, NON MEDICATED AND PUT ONE IN EACH NOSTRIL. DO THIS 3 TIMES A DAY AND ONCE A DAY SUCTION IT OUT. MY SON HAD THE SAME PROBLEM, I HTOUGHT IT WAS ASTHMA IT WAS SO LOUD BUT I TOOK HIM IN AND THE DR SAID HE JUST WAS MUCUSY...I COULD HERE IT IN HIS CHEST BUT IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE HE WASNT BREATHING THROUGH HIS NOSE PROPERLY... COME TO FIND OUT THERE WAS NOTHING IN HIS CHEST.. HE IS GREAT NOW.. HOPE THIS HELPS... YOU COULD ALSO JUST USE SALT WATER BUT MAKE SURE ITS NOT TOO STRONG
2007-12-15 01:58:01 · answer #5 · answered by ♥♥♥♥♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋