Using an eyedropper draw up some of the saline solution.
Homemade saline nasal rinse baby.
Store this mixture in a small clean jar.
Sniff gently to keep the saline solution from dripping right out of your nose.
Lie your baby across your lap with head angled slightly toward the floor use gravity to help the saline solution get where it needs to be.
Allow the baby to remain reclined for a few minutes if possible.
Using a squeeze bottle bulb syringe or neti pot pour or squeeze the saline solution slowly into the upper nostril.
When you are ready to.
Allow to cool to room temperature.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt.
Preferably a cup of bottled water teaspoon of fresh salt without iodine a pinch of baking soda a dropper or spray bottle.
Homemade saline solution requires the following.
Combine 1 cup 237 ml distilled or purified water with 1 2 tsp 2 5 g natural salt and 1 2 tsp 2 5 g baking soda.
Add salt and baking soda to your saline container neti pot or saline spray bottle.
Spray one or two squirts into each nostril.
Fill a small sauce pan with either tap or distilled water and bring it to a boil.
The stovetop method is more sterile than the microwave method because the water is boiled.
Make sure not to snort.
The water should not be so hot as to damage your nasal passages.
Lean forward and angle the spray nozzle into the nostril toward the ear.
Place a one to two drops in each nostril.
Homemade saline solution stovetop method.
4 cups of distilled or boiled for at least 20 minutes water 2 teaspoons tsp of noniodized salt an airtight storage container with a lid such as a bottle a mixing utensil.
To make the solution mix 3 teaspoons of non iodized salt kosher salt with no additives is best and one teaspoon of baking soda.
Enhanced saline nasal rinse 1 prepare a basic saline solution.
See notes below 2.
To make a saline solution for babies you will need the following.
It is easy to make saline nose drops at home.
Use your left hand for your right nostril and your right hand for your left.
Boil 2 cups of water covered for 15 minutes.