Home remedy for chest congestion for 5 month old baby girl.

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Continue breast feeding.

Mustard oil has medical & antibacterial properties. Its a safe & effective way to cure cough & congestion in children. Put one or two garlic cloves in mustard oil and heat the oil. Once the oil is lukewarm, rub it on baby’s chest & feet. Warmth & smell of mustard oil helps to get quick relief from nasal congestion and cough & cold.

You can also heat the mustard oil with a teaspoon of rock salt into it. Once the oil is lukewarm, rub it on baby’s chest, back & feet.

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Steam is the first thing you should try in case of cold & cough. Inhaling steam helps to clear baby’s blocked nose and open blocked airways. It helps your baby to sleep better and speed up recovery from cold , cough & congestion. 
Rub Baby Vicks  to bottom of your baby’s feet and chest at night, cover her feet with cotton socks. Your baby will get instant relief .Roast 2–3 big cloves of garlic & few pinches of Ajwain on tawa for just one minute. You will be able to smell powerful fumes. Let the mixture cool down and make a potli of it and keep near your child bedding. The smell of mixture will heal the cold & cough of your child.

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breast milk - no cure is greater than the only natural food for a new born babies.. it works as the remedy for an infection for baby within six months. Regular feeds also helps comfort a crancky baby who does not understand anything other than sense the touch of their mother.

warm mustard oil - warm a cup of musturd oil with two cloves of garlic and a few ajwain seeds. massage it on baby's feet, chest and palms.

honey and pepper-( for babies more than 1 years old) add a pinch of powdered pepper to a spoon of honey and feed the baby at regular intervals like in night and morning. this is good for both cold and cough. 
also give warm water to drink regularly and veggies soup like moong dal khichdi carrot soup..

give indirect steam with few drops of saline in it.. its help cough problem and clear stuffy nose. 
 
if the cold or a cough persists more than three days,  do see a pediatrician to confirm it to be a common cold and a symptom of something else.

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Apply mustard oil with a pinch of rock salt over chest back and neck of the baby and also u should give ajvain sek by roasting ajvain over tawa and then it to the hanky and keeping it near the head of the baby
Keep head elevated for helping child to breath easy.

For runny nose or blocked nose
Use saline drops and nasal aspirator to clean up the mucus
Keep head elevated
Apply cream near nose to avoid dryness and itching
Keep baby well hydrated
Apply turmeric paste over nose and forehead of the baby will help