subject: Children Nose Problems [print this page] Regardless of the reason for the nose breathing, the results arc quite clear. The rapid flow of air through the baby's nasal channels dries out the mucus that's normally produced. This forms crusts of mucus that encroach on his airway. This causes the baby to breathe harder, which further increases the rate of air flow. And so on and so on. If the inhaled air is extra-dry from being overheated, the process is speeded up. The end result is a snorting baby trying to move air around and through his mucus crusts. The baby sounds like an elephant with a peanut stuck in its trunk.
Sooner or later, the crust begins to irritate the baby's nose, and a sneeze reflex occurs. If the crust isn't dislodged, another sneeze takes place. Now you have a sneezing, snorting, stuffed-up baby, and someone asks, "How long has your baby had his cold?" Tell him, "Not so fast, buster. My baby doesn't have a cold." A cold is an infection, and babies with infections usually look and act sick. Your little snorter may sound awful, but he sure is acting all right. Furthermore, a baby with a cold produces a watery nasal discharge that flows from each nostril like the Nile. When he sneezes, the spray can be felt all over the room. Little snorters' sneezes are as dry as the Sahara .
HICCUPS All Babies Hiccup.
By the time they get around to being born, they've been hiccupping for several months. Remember those little rhythmic "kicks" when your baby was in utero? They were hiccups. The hiccup is the result of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm muscle. The vacuum produced by this contraction sucks air into the windpipe and, instead of passing all the way through to the lungs, the air is checked by the abrupt closing of the vocal cords. What comes our is a hic.
Because babies who feed ravenously, barracuda style, are more apt to hiccup, we believe that the air they swallow during feeding is involved in this process. It does make some sense to try to slow down the speed of the feeding, but I can imagine how much success you'll have trying to reason with a barracuda. Members of the medical profession have been trying to stop hiccups since Hippocrates' time, but none of the countless techniques they engineered have withstood the test of time. I don't know what the fuss is all about, anyway. It doesn't embarrass the baby, and unless the hiccupping leads to spitting up, it's perfectly harmless and will even-tually stop.
by: Rashid Javed
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