My son currently has the sniffles, and having gone for an audition for the tissues, is now a huge fan. You know how hard it is to get kids to blow their nose! I have been sent some stuff for the bath too, so he will be using that this evening.
My children are now 8 and 5, but I remember how anxious I was if mine had colds and flu as babies, so I was interested to read the background on the Olbas children's products.
Breathe Easy, Sleep Easy
Children with a cold need a good night’s sleep
When a child has a
nasty cold or the flu, not only do they feel under the weather, but a blocked nose also prevents them
from having a good night’s sleep. As a
result, no-one else gets much sleep either!
According to The Sleep Council, young children and babies
need 10-11 hours sleep a night, older children no less than 9. Just
one hour less of sleep a night can cause considerable memory and concentration
problems, as well as slowing down the recovery process from a cold or flu. 55% of teachers questioned in a recent Sleep
Council survey agreed that the brightest children in the classroom are the best
slept and most wide awake. Sleep also
plays a crucial role for children, and for all the family, in keeping common
colds and flu at bay.
Selecting the right products for your child can be confusing. That’s why Olbas
provides a chart to help select the right product for the correct age – there
is a product suited to every member of the family:
Formulated especially for infants over
3 months, Olbas for Children is a gentle
decongestant
that relieves congestion
and catarrh to
make breathing easier.
Priced at £3.79 / 15ml
More about the
Olbas range
Made with a combination of essential pure plant oils, such as eucalyptus, mint, clove, juniperberry and cajuput, Olbas products are formulated to
help noses large and small breathe easy and aid in a good nights sleep. It’s
the combination of these natural ingredients which releases those distinctively soothing and relieving natural
vapours.
Kathleen McGrath, Paediatric Nurse and sleep expert,
says, “Children have small air passages so even a minor blockage can affect
their breathing pattern and disrupt sleep, which is essential for a quicker
recovery from colds and flu.
“Young children do not know how, and hate being
encouraged, to blow their nose. An
easy solution is to use an infant decongestant to help clear their nose,
allowing children to fall asleep to a quicker recovery.”
McGrath offers some practical actions that parents
can do to help a child suffering with congestion before bedtime:
·
Make sure your child drinks plenty of cold
fluids
·
Don’t let your child get overheated – put
them in cotton night clothes
·
Make sure their bedroom is well ventilated
·
Put a few drops of natural infant
decongestant on the child’s pillow or baby’s bed sheet
·
Raising the head higher than the rest of the
body can make it easier to breathe while sleeping. Place a towel underneath
the head end of the mattress
·
From 2 years of age, teach little ones to blow
their nose. A good way to do this is
to explain that “it’s like sniffing but backwards”
To watch McGrath's YouTube video you can watch it here :) |
In 1930 Gilbert Lane was the head of a thriving family business
that developed a wide range of effective remedies to treat many common
ailments. These treatments were based on
his understanding of the medicinal properties of plants. Today, Lanes Health continue their founder’s
tradition of developing treatments to help improve our health and quality of
life.
Let's just all pray this cold weather is gone soon, the Spring is finally sprung and all the colds and sniffles are a distant memory!
Good luck!
Annie x
