Patient's question:
Can a child's nose with snot be cleaned with a cotton swab? The child has been in this condition for a while, and I dare not give them medicine. Please give me some advice from a doctor.Doctor's answer:
Hello; The situation you mentioned is not a problem and can be used. If you want to clean the baby's nasal mucus, we need to know first what is causing the mucus in the baby's nose. If it is caused by a cold, the first thing to do is to treat the baby's cold. Otherwise, it is just treating the symptoms, not the root cause, and cannot completely clear the mucus from the baby's nasal cavity. After the baby's cold is treated, parents can choose to gently insert cotton swabs into the baby's nose to slowly pick out the mucus inside the nasal cavity. However, this method is quite troublesome and not very clean.