My baby grunts all day and night: Why do newborns grunt all day?
When do Babies Grunt and Why?
Written by WebMD Editorial Contributors
In this Article
- When Should Babies Grunt?
- When to Contact a Doctor
From newborns to toddlers, babies can make grunting sounds at different times of day and night. Some parents worry these sounds are a sign of something to be concerned about. The good news is, most of the time, your baby’s grunting is perfectly normal.
When Should Babies Grunt?
During sleep. As soon as they are born, babies make all sorts of sounds while they are sleeping. Their sleep is often restless. Your baby may sometimes sleep soundly through loud sounds, but they can also be restless.
They might wake multiple times, or be almost awake throughout the night or nap time. Grunting is a normal sound for your baby to make during sleep, along with gurgles, squeaks, and snores.
Most of these sounds are completely normal and do not indicate any health or breathing problems. To lower the risk of any breathing issues during sleep make sure:
- Your baby’s clothes are loose, but not too loose
- Your baby is not too hot or cold
- There is nothing in their crib but a fitted sheet
- They are swaddled or in a warm sleeping garment, not warmed by blankets
- Your baby is on their back
- The crib mattress is firm, not soft.
If they are constipated. Babies often have a little trouble going to the bathroom. When you stand up, gravity helps feces leave your body. Babies are often laying horizontal, so it can be harder for them. Your baby may grunt and get red in the face when they are trying to push out a troublesome bowel movement.
How do you know if your baby is constipated? If they have hard bowel movements with the consistency of a pebble, or if they cry every time they make a mess in their diaper, they may be constipated. Never give your baby laxatives or enemas unless directed by a doctor. If your baby is constipated, ask your pediatrician for advice. They may advise you to give them more water or fruit juice.
If your baby is constipated and has a fever, vomiting, blood in the stool, or a bloated belly, seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Mucus in the nose and nasal passages. Your baby has a small nose and nasal passage. They mostly breathe through their noses because it makes feeding easier. Newborns also often have a lot of mucus. This is not due to any illness, but simply because their respiratory systems are still developing.
It is very easy for their tiny nose or nasal passage to get blocked, leading to strange noises, coughs, and sneezes. Help your baby clear their nasal passage by wiping their nose, using a nasal aspirator, or using a saline nasal rinse made for babies.
If your baby is grunting with every single breath, then contact a doctor immediately.
Acid reflux. Some babies get acid reflux. This can cause gurgling and grunting sounds during digestion. The muscles of your baby’s digestive system are still developing, so the muscle between the stomach and esophagus doesn’t always remain closed properly. Many baby behaviors such as lying horizontally most of the time contribute to this condition.
Most cases of infant acid reflux are completely normal. Spitting up is a result of this condition. Almost all babies spit up once in a while. In rare cases, infant reflux can be a sign of something more serious, especially when it is paired with any of the following symptoms:
- Failure to gain weight
- Frequent forceful vomiting
- Spit up is green, yellow, red (blood-like), or brown
- Won’t eat
- Has blood in their stool or diaper
If your baby spits up a lot, makes lots of grunting and gurgling sounds after eating, and has any of these symptoms, consult your pediatrician for advice.
When to Contact a Doctor
Most baby grunting is completely normal. It can be part of normal digestion, sleep, or just your baby exploring or discovering their voice.
However, you may want to contact a doctor for advice if your baby:
- Has a fever
- Appears bluish
- Is lethargic
- Has breathing that pauses for more than a few seconds
- Is breathing faster than 60 breaths per minute
- Grunts with each breath
Baby Grunting in Sleep and Other Sleep Sounds Explained – Happiest Baby
By
Happiest Baby Staff
On This Page
- Why is my baby making sounds while sleeping?
- Baby Grunting and Other Typical Newborn Sleep Sounds
- Breathing Sounds: Typical Sounds Newborns Make
- When to Worry About Baby Grunting and Other Sleep Sounds
- When Typical Baby Grunting and Other Sleep Sounds Keep You Awake
- When do babies sleep sounds stop?
Surprise: “Sleeping like a baby” sounds a lot like a stuffed-up grandpa taking a noisy midday snooze in the recliner! The truth is, babies make lots of weird noises while sleeping. In fact, experts confirm that newborn sleep is, indeed, not at all quiet. And while there are many totally normal baby sleep sounds that require not an ounce of worry…some baby grunting, whistling, and gurgling noises can be cause for concern. The trick? Knowing which baby sleep sounds and grunts are which. Here’s help!
Why is my baby making sounds while sleeping?
A few nights of snoozing next to your baby might leave you wondering: Why is my newborn such a noisy sleeper? It turns out, there’s a lot of biology to blame.
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Babies breathe out their noses. Up until your baby reaches 3 to 4 months old, they only breathe through their nose. And since their nasal passages are so teeny, it only takes small bits of mucus, breastmilk, or formula to migrate to the back of your baby’s small nasal passages, causing all sorts of congested-related sleep noises. (PS: This is why newborn congestion is common even when your baby doesn’t have a cold. )
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They’re still developing. Since your newborn’s respiratory and digestive systems aren’t fully developed yet, they’re both working extra hard to get their jobs done. And with all that extra work, comes extra sleep sounds, too. For instance, since babies are just learning how to regulate their breathing, you’ll likely overhear brief periods when their breathing speeds up or slows down when they’re snoozing.
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Babies are noisy poopers. Babies are not yet adept at relaxing their pelvic floor or using their tummy muscles to help move their bowels quietly. The result: Noisy grunting and straining when Baby has to make a number two! Though this is sometimes dubbed grunting baby syndrome, it’s totally normal and nothing to worry about.
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Babies experience many sleep transitions. Newborn babies cycle through just sleep stages—REM sleep (aka “active sleep”) and NREM “quiet sleep”—every 45 to 50 minutes. Once your baby reaches 3 to 4 months old, those two sleep stages turn into four.…which is how many sleep stages adults have. Even still, your little one’s sleep cycle—the full circuit from light to deep to light NREM sleep, plus a bit of REM—still lasts less than 60 minutes. So that means about every hour your sweet pea will enter a light sleep, making them more prone to moving around, briefly waking, and making short moans or squawks.
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Babies spend a lot of time in active sleep. Forty to 50% of your baby’s sleepytime is in memory-boosting REM sleep. (Meanwhile, grownups spend a mere 15% of their ZZZs lulling in REM.) REM sleep is a lighter sleep where babies are in a more active sleep state. That means your little one’s sleep will be marked by eye-fluttering, an elevated heart rate, wiggles, squirmies, and outbursts of various noises, like cries, whines, and whimpers.
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Babies are hungry a lot. Babies aren’t exactly subtle about their hunger…even when they’re dozing! That means you might hear your little one make rooting noises, like lip-smacking and suckling, when asleep in the bassinet. Since these sounds may be a sign that your little one will wake up hungry soon, you may want to preemptively feed your noisy sleeper.
Baby Grunting and Other Typical Newborn Sleep Sounds
Some typical sounds that baby will make while sleeping you might hear—and the reasons behind them—include:
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Whistling and rattling: Thanks to your newborn’s narrow nasal passage, whistling can go hand-in-hand with each inhale.
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Snorting: This is also associated with congestion and tends to occur when your newborn is in deep sleep. (Snorting, whistling, and rattling sleep sounds often calm down by the time your baby reaches about 6 months old.)
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Gurgling: Babies don’t yet reflexively swallow all of their saliva, so when it pools at the back of their mouth and air passes through, you’ll hear gurgling sounds while your baby sleeps.
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Hiccupping: It’s thought that newborns and infants are especially prone to hiccupping in their sleep thanks to gulping air during their last feed before bedtime.
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Whimpering, crying, groaning: If your little one momentarily cries or whimpers while sleeping, it’s likely just a sign that they’re transitioning from light sleep to deep sleep.
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Rumbling, burping, passing gas: Your infant’s only jobs right now are eating, pooping, and sleeping, which means that their developing digestive system is getting an around-the-clock workout—including during sleepy time.
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Baby grunting: When your baby grunts while sleeping, it often means that they’re adjusting to having bowel movements. Newbies are still getting used to using their abdominal muscles to move poop and gas through their system. (There are times, however, when newborn grunting during sleep could be worrisome. More on that below.)
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Lip-smacking: Is your newborn dreaming of a feed? Maybe! It’s quite common to hear lip-smacking and rooting noises from your wee one while they sleep. Be prepared: They’ll likely wake soon looking for the real deal.
Breathing Sounds: Typical Sounds Newborns Make
Since your baby’s airway is softer and narrower than yours, they’re more prone to loud breathing noises…especially when snoozing. Plus, babies naturally breathe faster than older children and grownups. In fact, your newborn’s breathing rate is about 40 to 60 breaths per minute, slowing to a still-fast 30 to 40 times a minute when sleeping. (For context, your at-rest respiration rate is likely between 12 and 16 breaths a minute.)
Beyond being fast, your newborn’s breathing is often irregular, too. While this not-quite-consistent breathing pattern might be startling, for most babies, it’s completely normal. Here’s what’s going on:
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Periodic Breathing. During active REM sleep, babies twitch and jerk their teeny arms legs…and their breathing can get a little jerky, too. This is called normal periodic breathing of infancy and it’s when your baby breathes fast several times, then has a brief rest for 10 seconds or less, then starts up again. Scary, right?! But know that these brief pauses in breathing are normal and something your baby will outgrow by about 6 months. That said, if your baby’s skin color changes during the pauses—or if you’re worried—contact your child’s healthcare provider ASAP.
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Transient Rapid Breathing. When fluid builds up in your newborn’s lungs it can make it difficult for the lung’s air sacs to stay open. The result: Rapid breathing followed by progressively deeper breaths. The good news is that normal breathing usually returns within a minute or so…and your baby most often will stop experiencing this in 48 hours or less. This condition, called transient tachypnea of the newborn, is most common in boys, early-term babies, those delivered by c-section, twins, and babies whose moms have diabetes or asthma.
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Laryngomalacia. When babies are born with floppy larynx tissue, it can fall toward their airway, causing partial obstruction, which makes for noisy breathing. ..especially when tots are laying on their back, which is the safest sleep position. This is the most common cause of noisy breathing in infants and for about 80% of babies, laryngomalacia resolves on its own.
When to Worry About Baby Grunting and Other Sleep Sounds
Most of the time your squeaking, gurgling, burping snoozer is A-okay! But there are times when baby sleep sounds signal something bigger is going on. Listen up for these noises:
- Fast breathing of over 40 breaths a minute
- Rhythmic grunting during breathing…especially when paired with flared nostrils
- An extra-long exhale sound
- Whistling sound each time your baby breathes out
These scary sleep sounds could indicate that your baby has respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), bronchiolitis, or respiratory distress syndrome. It’s important that you contact your healthcare provider immediately for guidance.
When Typical Baby Grunting and Other Sleep Sounds Keep You Awake
It’s hard not to tune into every little noise that emerges from your precious new baby! But if every wayward toot and gurgle wakes you from a solid slumber, consider turning on some white noise. Not only will white noise lull your baby to a calming sleep, but white noise acts as a “blanket of sound” for you, drowning out baby’s sleep sounds. (Don’t worry: You’ll still hear your baby cry.) While it may be tempting to relocate your noisy newborn to their nursery, the American Academy of Pediatrics urges parents to room-share with their little one for at least 6 months. This practice alone can decrease the risk of SIDS by as much as 50%.
When do babies sleep sounds stop?
If you’ve ever shared a bed with a snorer you know that there’s no guarantee that all sleep sounds stop after a certain age! But certain baby noises do tend to quiet after a few months. For instance, a few months in, your baby’s lungs and digestive system start figuring their jobs out, which results in quieter sleep. At the same time, once your nugget reaches 3 to 6 months old, they start spending less sleepytime in active, noisy REM sleep and more time in quieter deep sleep. To help your baby achieve quiet, restful sleep, consider the following:
- Feed your baby in a more upright position, especially before sleep.
- Burp your baby after feeds, especially before sleep.
- During the day, bicycle Baby’s legs and gently press their knees to their tummy to help reduce bowel-related strain and grunting.
- Offer a dream feed.
- Learn your baby’s sleepytime cues and wake windows.
- Establish a relaxing bedtime routine.
- Use white noise to soothe your baby—and muffle potentially sleep-disturbing sounds. The best white noise machines also mimic womb-sounds, like Dr. Harvey Karp’s SNOObie and SNOObear.
For more advice on how to set your baby up for sleep success, check out “The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep.”
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We grunt, but there is no snot. What could be the reason?
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September 23, 2014 9:19 pm at Personal Journal
For the second week this has been going on – grunting at night. Gives a lot of inconvenience to the child. I already steamed him in the bathroom, washed his nose, air washing maintains humidity, but he still snores. No snot, breathes through the nose. Maybe someone did? Tomorrow we’ll go to LOR – let her look at the ears and throat at the same time.
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Cough and grunting in the nose, without snot in a healthy child
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11 April 2017 22:41 at Personal journal
What could it be? Yesterday we went to the doctor, because my daughter coughs periodically, she listened to her, looked at her throat, everything is in order. She prescribed l-set allergy syrup and said that it was probably for flowering. Today, my daughter coughs even worse in the morning, she also coughed in her daytime sleep, her nose grunts in a dream, although there is no snot and she coughs almost to the point of vomiting. After sleep, she gave me an allergy medicine, it seemed to feel a little better, but she still coughed, now she fell asleep at night and everything seems to be OK again, then her nose grunts and the cough seems to be choking almost to the point of vomiting. Her nose grunts and it’s such an impression that she has mucus there that doesn’t allow her to inhale and she starts coughing (but it sounds like that to me). Grunts only in a dream, during the day …
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What if the child does not clean up the snot?
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June 20, 2016 10:47 am at Blog The son got sick. Yesterday evening T 38.3 rose sharply. No snot, no throat, no cough, in general, I don’t know where T came from . .. The only thing, maybe I picked up Cho from my cousin. His sister had been ill there for a long time, and he took it and stuck with his grandparents just when we decided to leave our son with them for the whole day (we had to go to another city). And we were not warned that there the brother would possibly be a peddler of infection. But he is not sick. Like. In short, I don’t know, but a fact is a fact. The child got sick. At night, they still decided to give him paracetamol. When T became 38.6. By the morning it had already become 37.5 and kept here until tonight. The day the doctor came. Naturally, the throat is already red. Discharge…
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grunting at night and ENT in Belgorod
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29 January 2016 06:24 at Personal journal , as I put him to bed, he begins to grunt with his nose (at the same time, there is no runny nose during the day and snot does not flow). Tried to suck before going to bed nothing is sucked. I constantly drip saline into my nose during the day, but the grunting in my sleep does not stop. During the day he breathes through his nose, at night I think too, since we still have a nipple for sleep, but during the day there is no grunting, but at night there is. Who had it, why and what did they do? And tell me, please, a good lore in Belgorod? Thanks in advance to everyone for the help and replies!
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Runny nose and otitis media in infants
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24 September 2021 11:20 at Personal log
We are 7 weeks old. I have noticed for a long time that my nose is not breathing well at night. There is no snot, mucus is deep somewhere, the child grunts and sleeps restlessly from this. During the day, everything is fine, the chest takes well, the nose breathes. I thought it was a physiological runny nose, but it turned into otitis media. Ears were treated with Otipax. The runny nose remained. How to deal with it? Who had it? Nazol baby was discharged. But it does not seem to heal, but just a vasoconstrictor effect
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The child cannot sleep because of a blocked nose, what should I do?
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October 3, 2012 19:19 at Personal log
It’s been two days already. There is no snot, and his nose is stuffed up, grunts, and does not want to breathe through his mouth. I wash it with saline, today the nozzles have already appeared. You can take a ticket to the lore only on the 11th, and then with a referral from the pediatrician. In a paid clinic only on Friday evening, but how else to sleep for 2 nights? And yet, you don’t know what are the symptoms when the adenoids become inflamed or start to grow (I don’t know how to say it right)?
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October 23, 2021 9:47 pm at Personal log
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What could it be
The girls have been suffering for a week now, something is bothering the little one in the nose, as if stuffed up, there is no snot, but it’s like it’s grunting straight, it’s already cleaned with cotton flagella, it dripped humer, it sucked, the nozzle sucks a little mucus like it sucks, but further inside it sits , and prevents the child from breathing normally, she also got small goats, but it’s not clear what, well, it doesn’t work out
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Swelling of the sinuses in the morning.
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January 30, 2018 19:44 at Personal Journal
After we started going to the kindergarten, the child often gets sick. After the last illness, the cough went away for a long time, for 3 months, and there were no wheezing, he coughed in the morning and a little in the evening. Inhalations helped a lot. And now it all went away, but I noticed that when he wakes up, his nose does not breathe, there is no snot, and sometimes you can hear something grunting in the nasopharynx. Our doctor didn’t explain it at all. This congestion passes on the way to the garden. Who had it.
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Baby grunts
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November 9, 2018 08:54 at Health and nutrition of the baby
Girls, baby, 5 months old grunts. It’s been about a month now. Since yesterday, the “grunts” have intensified. Sounds like wheezing or something. It feels like there is snot somewhere in the nasopharynx, but there is no discharge, no fever, no cough, the child behaves as usual. As soon as it started, we went to the pediatrician: she said that they say it was narrow nasal passages, but she prescribed interferon and Viferon suppositories that didn’t calm me down – we went to a paid lore: an epic with drugs began: aqua maris, Nazi wine, Derin at, sea buckthorn oil, nozzle suction. Pediatrician new version: this is physiology! I felt a little better and again … my daughter is not breathing well through her nose, these wheezing are already giving away in the chest. Don’t know what to think? Who to believe? Already feel sorry for the child from t …
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Everything and a little more about a runny nose!!! These are those who have never met with a runny nose in their lives. Yes, it seems that the sore is not so severe, not terribly unpleasant. If for an adult a runny nose is unpleasant, but, by and large, not dangerous, then with the kids the situation is somewhat different. And the younger the child, the more acute the problem of his snot for parents. Yes, you don’t need to heal a child with tons of medicines, it’s unlikely that the baby will voluntarily agree to those procedures with the nose that you planned to carry out. Washing, instillation, warming up and other byaki are unpleasant for the child, so you need to treat it with those and then. When help really comes in handy. On the other hand…
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How can you trust doctors after this?
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February 5, 2013 22:42 at Personal Journal
I wanted to share my story about children’s doctors. Maybe someone will come in handy. This is my first child and I have no experience with children. The birth was easy, the baby was born healthy and strong 4146.58 cm. They examined him, they said he was healthy. She gave birth at 5.10, he slept all day, and in the evening he started crying, I don’t know what to do with him, he doesn’t take his breast, he doesn’t calm down in his arms, dry, but he grunts . .. I go to the nurses, they go to the neonatologist, she examined, everything is fine says he’s just being naughty!!! Have you heard? The child does not have a day, but he shows character! I tell them: “He grunts, something with his nose ..” Well, he’s my first, even though I read a lot, but I don’t know anything … In short, they took and dripped drops from him …
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girls, what’s wrong with your nose, help??
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February 3, 2016 23:12 at Personal Journal .e the nose does not breathe, but I tried, for example, he just woke up, grunts, I immediately suck akamaris in my nose and suck it with an aspirator, there is no snot, nothing comes out at all, just do it! but the nose is not breathing, and the growths in the nose are like sores! what to do, the humidifier is on, I’m checking the room, to the ENT only in two weeks, what could it be, adenoids? I’m very afraid of our horsemen, they will listen to complaints and immediately appoint some kind of operation (((I’ll make a reservation right away that this is perimodal, that is, it’s not, but our batteries are being heated, and it’s gone, maybe it’s connected with this, maybe it’s better to wait for spring . ..
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October 30, 2022 09:06 am at Personal Journal
Complain went to the hospital with a cough and green snot on 13.10 and was discharged on 25.10. I was sick for a long time because I also had otitis media.
So the blood and urine are good, the ENT said everything is fine, we tell the pediatrician to have a dry cough only at night and grunts his nose. She looked at her throat and listened and said everything is fine, there is no mucus in her throat at all. And they released us.
But the child’s nose grunts, the snot does not flow, if I start rinsing it is not there, if it comes out then it’s straight 1 drop transparent can be a little thick. And the cough turned into a wet one as we drink Sinekod.
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Snot in a child 10, 5 months old
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28 October 2014 20:59 at Personal Journal there is no other negative, apart from constant whining, but this has been with us since birth . .. I drip Otrivin baby 2 times a day, more often it doesn’t work … Dripping is a whole epic … scream, oh, I put it on the sofa, myself on top, I pinch my arms and legs, if I can also manage my head, then I bury it, if not, then that’s it, he breaks out, yells, shakes his head in different directions … There’s no question about sucking with an aspirator … it’s useless … maybe if someone would help, but only me there’s just no way to do it… Styopka grunts… it feels like there’s snot somewhere in his nasopharynx… During the day he still breathes somehow, but at night he’s full… he wakes up from congestion, cries, he can’t suck his chest…
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What to do with these snot ((
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December 1, 2014 14:22 at Personal journal
I already don’t know what to do with them. Soon I already don’t know what to do with them. “But they don’t even think to pass! The nose is stuffy, she can’t eat normally, she breathes through her mouth. We can’t walk normally either … I’m afraid that I’ll swallow air with my mouth. For the first three to five days I dripped otrivin spray, then I removed the snot with an aspirator (and very badly they are cleaned, and the little one yells wildly, and then grunts his nose anyway) and twice a day dripped Nazivin (did not help, the snot even didn’t decrease for a while). Now it’s been five days 1. Otrivin-spray 2. Aspirator 3. Protargol twice a day. Protargol, it seems, also cannot be dripped for more than five days. Everyone praises it so much, but even it does not help us. I have already tried aloe juice instillation …
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SCHOLKOVO. Children’s lore. tell me. And a question about the nose.
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September 24, 2017 20:13 at Personal Journal
Here we are overtaken by the formula of a kindergarten child: we go for a week – we are at home for a week.
The question is this: the first week they departed, then the runny nose was treated for a week. Snot dripped down the wall, coughed and grunted in her sleep. Cured, went to the garden, departed for a week.
Today the rate has risen to 37.1, there is no snot, the nose breathes, BUT – coughs while lying down, and during the day it coughs a little (without sputum), snores when it lies, coughs when it lies especially, the nose breathes, there is no snot, but it says gundositis, in the nose . Damn, could it be adenoids?? I just looked it up on the internet for symptoms.
ENT we have only an adult in the clinic – and those pancake only on Wednesday. Where can I find a normal children’s lore with us? and how to identify and test adeno…
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the child is sick
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February 13, 2015 02:54 to I don’t quite understand what’s wrong with him! And the sea has already been spent on all possible medicines, they are not a pity, but there is no result! The doctor has already been 3 times, but I still don’t have clarity. At first, the snot was not sucked out at all (now long and viscous fly out with a sneeze), the nostrils are clean, and the mucus was somewhere far away, the nose did not breathe, the child was nervous, so I had to refuse the drops and buy Aqualor baby spray, so he began to wash out the snot under a little pressure, but enough for a couple “Three hours, then grunts again. The cough was terrible and at the end it looked like barking, now it became wet, without barking. There is a lot of saliva, r …
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Grunts
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23 November 2018 13:41 at He grunts with his nose … it seems that it’s not congestion … I don’t understand. We went to the lore … I looked with the camera or whatever they call it. Everything is OK. I rinse with saline. Sometimes mucus comes out, no snot.
Recently went outside, breathed through his mouth. The nose is completely stuffed up. Brrr. Can this be on the teeth? This was not the case with the first child. ..
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physiological runny nose in a child. “what is it and what does it eat with”?
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11 November 2015 00:55 at Personal journal how to determine the physiological is a runny nose or not. something periodically grunts and gurgles in the baby’s nose, I draw out mucus with an aspirator every two days. but at the same time, she sleeps well during the day, eats too (while eating, she does not come off her chest to inhale, that is, she breathes through her nose), but at the same time she can gurgle as if someone is smoking a hookah))) then she eats and falls asleep she doesn’t snore, she doesn’t squish anymore … well, she can grunt her nose when she cries. There is no temperature – the forehead is absolutely normal, I touch it constantly during the day, I have never aroused suspicion. no cough either. Well, maybe sneezing 1-2 times a day. this is a physiological runny nose, which itself passed …
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Here is the month
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June 22, 2016 11:56 am at Personal journal
The first significant date of our baby unexpectedly approached! Today we are one month old))) In general, despite some problems, the month passed easily. And as always, I dedicate a long post to this date))) 1. Mom, but dad doesn’t breathe Only it wasn’t dad who didn’t breathe, but our Tim. The nose did not breathe. Because of this, he spat with his chest, cried and did not sleep. When I understood why the child was behaving this way, a panic began. Do you remember that I read sooo much information about children? And my memory helpfully threw in the fact that children do not know how to consciously breathe through their mouths. And they can suffocate. Therefore, the panic was cosmic. I could not do anything with a pear aspirator. She grabbed her son, in home clothes rushed to the pharmacy, for about …
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Stuffy nose in a 7 month old baby!
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October 7, 2015 11:02 am at Personal journal
background: we have upper front teeth, two at once. it started about a week ago. on Thursday night, the rate rose to 38.5, there was a little snot, which was easily sucked off by an aspirator. On Friday morning we went to the doctor to rule out an infection. the doctor looked, listened, said – her teeth, everything else is normal. there are no appointments, except to bring down the big pace and kalgel (yeah!). so: the second night the child cannot sleep peacefully, because there is simply nothing to breathe! the nose is clogged, the snot is grunting somewhere inside, I can’t get it ((I wash my nose with saline, drip Miramistin drop by drop. I don’t have a temperature, I can’t see my throat, but I think it’s normal. What should I do? I called the hospital, the ENT is on vacation, but go to the pediatrician n…
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Stuffy nose in a 7 month old baby!
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October 7, 2015 11:04 am at Baby health and nutrition
background: we have upper front teeth, two at once. it started about a week ago. on Thursday night, the rate rose to 38.5, there was a little snot, which was easily sucked off by an aspirator. On Friday morning we went to the doctor to rule out an infection. the doctor looked, listened, said – her teeth, everything else is normal. there are no appointments, except to bring down the big pace and kalgel (yeah!). so: the second night the child cannot sleep peacefully, because there is simply nothing to breathe! the nose is clogged, the snot is grunting somewhere inside, I can’t get it ((I wash my nose with saline, drip Miramistin drop by drop. I don’t have a temperature, I can’t see my throat, but I think it’s normal. What should I do? I called the hospital, the ENT is on vacation, but go to the pediatrician n…
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Nasal obstruction on teeth?
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July 8, 2013 16:23 at Baby health and nutrition
Girls, can you put your nose on your teeth? At first, my daughter’s nose was slightly stuffy, and for the last two days she hasn’t been breathing at all, while there is no snot, her nostrils are completely clean, but you can hear that she is grunting somewhere far away. On Thursday, the local nurse came to us, looked and said that the tooth was climbing, but it was still far away, then our nose was still breathing well and I didn’t ask her about it. My daughter began to eat poorly, she constantly chokes because of her nose. , but in my opinion zero. Advise what else you can try? I can’t wash and suck, I’m alone, there’s no one to hold the child, and she kicks a lot.
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Runny nose. How to breathe? 🙁
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December 20, 2011 2:47 pm at Personal Journal crying, they dripped aqua maris all night, sucked snot with an aspirator (although there are almost none), cleaned the nose with cotton turundas with oil and water, nothing helps, and tomorrow we go to the doctor for the first time for an examination, what else can be done so that the child can breathe? Yes, breathing becomes more or less normal only in the upright position, but I can’t hold it around the clock on my hands (((((
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a sound from a child… what could it be?
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November 2, 2012 10:14 pm at Personal Journal
the child makes a sound while inhaling, as if something is bothering him there . .. several times a day. I would say often. it looks like he doesn’t have enough air … or I don’t know what it is … there is no snot, they already dripped and washed … at night the child sleeps and breathes through his nose. breathing is clean. the pediatrician looked in the afternoon, said that the neck was pink. just arrived from the doctor in the city hospital (we went to the emergency room of the ENT department). The doctor said he couldn’t see anything. and even the throat is normal .. I ask the child to inhale and exhale intensively with his nose … the first breath is sharp with a grunt, and then a clear sound …
Girls, what could it be? Or am I just an alarmist?
you tell him not to do it with his nose, he laughs and can do this many times……
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damn girls! Sounds like the baby is out of breath!
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November 2, 2012 10:20 pm at Personal Journal
the child makes a sound when inhaling, as if something is bothering him there . .. several times a day. I would say often. it looks like he doesn’t have enough air … or I don’t know what it is … there is no snot, they already dripped and washed … at night the child sleeps and breathes through his nose. breathing is clean. the pediatrician looked in the afternoon, said that the neck was pink. just arrived from the doctor in the city hospital (we went to the emergency room of the ENT department). The doctor said he couldn’t see anything. and even the throat is normal .. I ask the child to inhale and exhale intensively with his nose … the first breath is sharp with a grunt, and then a clear sound …
Girls, what could it be? Or am I just an alarmist?
you tell him not to do it with his nose, he laughs and can do this many times……
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Child at 11 months gundosit and wrinkles nose
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March 23, 2016 21:43 at Personal journal
Girls, what the hell? For several days now, Liza has been humming like her nose is clogged, constantly grunting like a hedgehog, a la trying to blow something out, wrinkling her nose. I wash it with aquamaris, there is no snot, I think my nose is breathing, at least the nipple is not spitting out. Any suggestions? P.S. I know about “go to the doctor”
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adenoiditis and kindergarten
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October 5, 2016 15:14 at Personal journal
a child has recently been diagnosed with adenoiditis of the 1st degree. were like 10 days in the garden. Chera took from the garden with a stuffy nose. didn’t go today. the clinic is as follows: no snot, temperature 36.6C, slept without snoring, breathed through the nose. BUT! during the day he breathes through his mouth and sometimes he grunts somewhere deep. I don’t know if I should take my child to kindergarten tomorrow. there is no particular desire to go to the clinic, because there you stand in line for an hour, you put on all the diseases.
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Baby has snot. Can’t breathe
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April 30, 2017 03:23 at Personal journal
woke up from the fact that the child cannot breathe deeply through the nose ((The whole nose is clogged with snot, grunts and grunts, they gurgle there ash. But they are deep, you can’t even see them. I washed them with aquamaris, sucked out baby’s otrivin and then baby’s nazivin. But it’s no use. She can’t eat. She only breathes in short breaths, they gurgle deeply and immediately. She can’t fall asleep. What should I do???? How to pull them out (((I already pumped them out with a baby enema … it doesn’t work (((
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The child snores, sniffs, grunts
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November 18, 2015 13:00 at Personal log
Us 2.3. We go to the garden. No runny nose! But when we go to bed, something incomprehensible begins to happen in the nose. The child is snoring, snoring loudly … as if he has a lot of snot there … it’s all grunting, gurgling … I’m already blowing his nose – clean, rinse with aqualor, zirtek gave two weeks. Right now, all in sputum, he began to cough in an upright position. Everything just pops in the nasopharynx. Seems to be leaking down the back wall. We have stage 1 adenoids. But when there was not so much sputum, he also snored and snorted … what is it from? From the adenoids? When Laura was after treatment, he said that everything is clean with you, everything is fine. But nevertheless, the nose is still not perfectly clean breathing. Bubbling and snoring. In a dream.
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Mouth breathing is not uncommon in children. This happens when there is not enough air coming through the nose.
There can be many reasons: a runny nose or inflamed adenoids, etc. The air passage is completely blocked or noticeably narrowed, and the body is forced to rebuild – for this, the mouth is connected.
Is it acceptable for children to breathe through their mouths? Yes. This breathing is not physiological – it is a “reserve airfield” for a cold. A week or two of such a regimen will not do harm. But if there is no runny nose, and the mouth is constantly open, this is already a cause for concern.
If a child breathes through his mouth all the time, a whole cascade of changes takes place.
Firstly, the width of the airways is still not enough for a normal supply of oxygen, hypoxia develops, which affects the general condition of the child: he becomes irritable and capricious, gets sick and tired more often, there is no success in sports, academic performance decreases.
Secondly, there are noticeable metamorphoses at the physiological level: the lower jaw goes down and goes back, followed by the tongue.
Even posture suffers: the head is pulled forward, the person unconsciously begins to stoop. So the body tries to cope with the lack of oxygen. And it is completely useless to say “straighten up!”. Correction must begin with a visit to the ENT doctor.
What happens to the bite when a child breathes frequently through an open mouth?
When breathing through the nose, the tip and front third of the tongue are in the correct position in the mouth. So the upper jaw receives the necessary stimulus for development.
But if the baby breathes deeply through the mouth, the tongue goes down with the lower jaw, and the upper jaw does not receive enough pressure, does not develop and remains narrow. In this case, the lower part of the chin moves even more back. This is how the distal bite is formed.
In turn, the lips do not close and do not exert the necessary pressure on the dentition. As a result, the front teeth deviate forward. It looks ugly and increases the risk of injury.
All these changes are reflected in the appearance: the face is stretched, the chin is shifted back, a “second chin” appears, not associated with excess weight.
If the child began to constantly breathe through the mouth, dry mouth makes itself felt, and saliva ceases to protect the teeth. Therefore, in children with such a problem, caries spreads instantly.
How to wean a child to breathe through his mouth?
To solve this problem, it is important to work in a team with several doctors. The ENT corrects the patency of the nasopharynx, the osteopath corrects the posture, the dentist eliminates the foci of infection, the orthodontist expands the upper jaw and sets the lower jaw to a standard position. The speech therapist retrains the tongue to lie back where it is supposed to – at the top, restores the weakened tone of the lips and shows exercises for differentiating nasal and oral breathing.
Only an integrated approach will enable a child to grow harmoniously, be energetic and healthy.