Any respiratory infection in any infants starts with runny nose or a cough. It is usually that the baby is started on cough syrups at this point of time. However if there is difficulty in breathing, that is fast breathing or if the baby is not able to feed properly, if there is an interrupted sucking during breast feeding or if there is some chest indrawing that is when the baby is breathing the chest goes inside. If that type of breathing you see, the baby has to be properly assessed by a pediatrician and to see if there is some severe difficulty in respiration. but if the baby is seen with difficulty in respiration during a nasal block, that is if the secretions are increasing and it is blocking the nose, then it is also casing difficulty in breathing the babies and in such cases the breast feeding is affected in such cases saline drops can be used and steam inhalations can be added along with the other medications.

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