Suction for a blocked nose

• If the nose is blocked up, your child will not be able to drink from a bottle or breast-feed.
• Most stuffy noses are blocked by dried or sticky mucus.
• Wash out the dried secretions with warm water or saline nose drops. Use 1 drop at a time in infants. This will loosen up the sticky mucus.
• Then use a suction bulb. Repeat nosedrops until open.
• Make saline nosedrops by adding ½ tsp of table salt to 1 cup (8 oz) of warm water.