When the child got sick, mom seeks to help him to recover rather. To treat cold at the baby not easy since it is impossible to apply the majority of "adult" drugs to kids.
Physiological cold
Normal in the first months of life at the kid liquid transparent slime can accumulate in a nose. So the organism of the child reacts to need to warm and moisten air before it gets into lungs. If the child is quiet, well eats, he has no temperature and slime does not prevent breath, the kid does not need to be treated. Physiological cold is not a disease, and natural reaction of a healthy organism of the baby to the changed conditions.
Clean, damp and cool air in the nursery
Both at physiological, and at common cold the adults have to create optimal conditions for breath of the child. That slime in a nose of the kid was not condensed and did not dry up, parents have to moisten air in the room of the baby. For this purpose you can place containers with water, cover batteries with wet towels, several times a day raspryskivat liquid from a spray. Daily wash the floor in the room of the child. If you have a humidifier, include it. Air the room several times a day that the kid could breathe fresh air.
Snivels of the baby can dry up also because of too hot air. Whenever possible maintain temperature in the room at the level of 22-23 degrees. Remove dust sources from the room: carpets, soft toys, plaids, etc. Daily wipe dust. Air in the room of the kid has to be clean. Dress the child more warmly. It is useful for kid to breathe cool air, but he should not freeze.
Clean a nose of the kid
Moisten a cavity of a nose of the kid by means of hydrochloric solutions. You can buy them in pharmacy. Drops, but not sprays will be suitable for the baby. Instead of sea water you can buy physical solution and dig in it to the kid the pipette. Stack the kid in a bed or a carriage so that the head was a little above legs. In this case slime will not be late in a nose, and will begin to flow down down a nasopharynx. You nurse the kid. Mothers of an antibody received with milk will help to defeat cold quicker. If the child is more senior than 6 months, suggest it to drink water that there was no dehydration. If the kid has a weak cold which does not interfere it with breath, clean a nose of the baby cotton zhgutika. Take a quarter of a cotton pad, wet it in warm boiled water, curtail into a tubule and exempt bosoms of the kid from the accumulated slime. At severe cold you can use an aspirator for suction of snivels. Apply it only as a last resort not to injure the newborn's nose. Also you should consult the pediatrician. Perhaps, he will prescribe medicine.
Find out the reason
See a doctor and determine by joint efforts the cause of cold. If it is a virus, the child will recover within a week when it develops antibodies. Often at the kids who are on breastfeeding in the first months of life the nose is hammered with milk. It does not demand treatment. It is enough to carry after feeding the child on hands a column. Also the baby can have an allergic cold. In that case you will need to find out a source of a problem and to eliminate it.