Properly suctioning mouth of infant with bulb syringe
My 5 month old is having a horrible time with a cold currently. He's been progressively producing a large amount of phlegm - now to the point that he's coughing almost continuously and having a hard time eating and sometimes breathing. My spouse and I have tried steaming the bathroom with hot showers, as well as using humidifiers but it's not breaking up the mucus enough for him to effectively cough it up.
Is there a proper way to suction a baby's mouth with a bulb syringe? Everything that I've searched for and read states that a baby can be suctioned via mouth or nose with a bulb syringe but all examples only show descriptions and steps of suctioning the nose, not the mouth.
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From your description, suctioning the mouth is not what you need, in fact there are only a very few cases where it useful to suction the mouth at all.
Loosening the phlegm from the lungs/throat can be relatively straightforward. Steaming a room as you have been doing should help, but what worked for us was to have our baby lying gave down across my knees, head a little lower, and clapping or tapping her back. It doesn't need to be hard, but five minutes of this in the morning really makes a difference.
If the problem really persists, you could speak to your GP about the use of a nebulizer.
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