Sentences with phrase «nasal air passages»

While newborns rely on those tiny nasal air passages for their breathing, and the snorting, grunting noises they make when there is some blockage may sound terrible, what is most important is how your baby is doing overall.

Aim the bottle «back» (not «up»), as the nasal air passage is actually parallel with a line between ones nose and ones ear, not up towards ones forehead.

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Keeping humidity in the air will keep the nasal passages moist and prevent viruses from thriving.

How this helps: Breathing moist air helps loosen the mucus in the nasal passages.

When the air gets too dry, the baby's nasal passages can get clogged with icky stuff.

- Run a cool mist vaporizer to keep the air moist and hydrate nasal passages.

Sneezes will naturally help eject germs and particles from the nasal passages and keep air flowing.

The warm, moist air that the humidifier produces allows the nasal secretions to thin out and flow out, keeping your little one's nasal passages clear.

When the air the baby breathes lacks appropriate moisture levels, the result is usually sore nasal passages which eventually cause cracking of the skin and sometimes even bleeding.

The dry air can dry out the nasal passages causing cracking and bleeding.

Using a humidifier in your child's room when he is sleeping will help put moisture in the air, moistening the nasal passages and helping to loosen secretions.

This same warm air prevents frequent nosebleeds as well, since the moisture travels inside their wee little nasal passage, keeping it wet not dry.

Treatment for the common cold in babies involves easing their symptoms, such as by providing fluids, keeping the air moist and helping them keep their nasal passages open.

Think about it: the air we breathe is laden with impurities, like dust, germs, pollutants, fumes from perfumes, laundry detergents and other chemicals, pet dander... While an adult's nasal passages may be able to handle those impurities, a newborn's is so undeveloped that those impurities can irritate and clog up those passages.

Therefore, if the air is not moist, their nasal passages can dry up and look like the little prunes, especially when they are asleep at night.

Given the fact that babies are naturally nose - breathers and not mouth - breathers, you'll experience a full range of whistling, gurgling and snorting sounds as their tiny nasal passages breathe in air.

This narrowing of the nasal passage enhances contact between the air and the mucosal tissue, which helps to warm and humidify that air, Noback notes.

The right nasal passage continues from the museau to create a layer of air that stretches underneath the spermaceti organ and joins with a sac that covers the face of the skull before regaining its tubular shape and heading for the lungs.

(What happens is that one nasal passage swells, restricting air flow.)

Dolphins emit a series of quick, high - frequency sounds — probably by forcing air over tissues in the nasal passage — to find and track potential prey.

When air is pushed through the whale's nasal passage, it produces extremely high frequency clicks, squeaks and squeals that then echo off objects in the water, enabling the whale to get a high - resolution audio image of its surroundings.

The moist air can open the sinuses and nasal passages, allowing for clearer breathing.

Just like our nasal passages have mechanisms to trap allergens before they reach our lungs, our homes use air filters to stop pollen, dust mites, and more from reaching the heating and cooling systems.

Forced hot air can also dry out your eyes and nasal passages.

If Fido doesn't stop sneezing after this, you could try depressing his tongue to open his mouth and help air move through his nasal passages.

This makes your furkid's nasal passage more sensitive to air movement, air moisture and air temperature changes.

We have very short nasal passages, which means that the air does not have time to cool down before it reaches our lungs.

Treatment consists of fluids, antibiotics, nebulization (a process to humidify the air and keep the nasal passages moist), and eye medications.

The Humane Society of the U.S. says air travel can be risky for pets and especially dangerous for brachycephalic breeds — such as pugs or bulldogs, whose short nasal passages make them vulnerable to oxygen deprivation and heat stroke.

I babysit a little boy for this family and they have a labradoodle so I am with him a lot and recently I have been dog sitting him while the family I work for is on vacation and I have been noticing that when ever he lays down he starts breathing really hard and fast and you can hear the air going through his nose every time he breathes like his nasal passage is blocked and he's trying to clear it or something and his chest moves up and down like a kid who is about to have an asthma attack and he coughs and burps a lot.

Brachiocephalic (pug - nosed) dogs are more prone to heatstroke because their nasal passages are smaller and it's more difficult for them to circulate sufficient air for cooling.

Air moves through the nasal passages, which picks up excess heat from the body.

By just slightly broadening the nasal passage it quadruples the air flow.

Another main trigger is the involuntary movement of the hairlike cilia in the respiratory tract which remove foreign matter from the air before it gets into the lungs, but other underlying causes can include mucous irritation, obstruction of the nasal passage, inflammation, excess nasal discharge or secretion, pneumonia, chronic vomiting, GI disease, and nasal tumors and dental diseases in older dogs.

It's especially helpful during the winter months when the low - moisture air is more likely to irritate the nasal passages.