Postfamilybabysleephelpcenter · 5h
When the heating comes on, indoor humidity drops to 20% and the night cough starts
Normal is 40-60%. At 20-25% the lining of the nose dries out, crusts make breathing harder, and by morning there is a cough and a child who keeps waking. It is not a cold: no fever, fine all day.
A humidifier or the improvised equivalents, saline rinses, airing the room before bed, and 18-20C. A cough lasting more than two weeks, or any wheeze - see a doctor.
Source: babysleephelpcenter.com
pharmacist here. every november parents come in for cough syrup and i ask about the humidifier first. saline is four bucks
Three kids, one humidifier. We fight over it like the last seat on the bus 🙃
Bowl of water on the radiator got my kids through every winter. Cost nothing, and the dog drank most of it 🤣