Vicks Vapor Rub
Posted by cassie on Sunday, 10 August, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
I heard about this about a year ago and had forgotten about this “remedy” until recently when Anthony was sick. “What?”, you say. If your child has a cold and/or cough rub vick’s vapor rub on their feet and then put socks on. It’ll help relieve the cough. It sounds rather kooky but when you have a toddler coughing up a storm in the middle of the night you’re game for anything. Well, I can say I tried it and it works! I understand the principal of why but am still rather amazed. The skin on your feet is very thin and easily absords what is applied to it, therefore making it easy for the vicks to “do it’s thing”. I don’t understand why it seems to help more being applied to their feet than their chest though.
I’m contemplating applying it to Vince’s feet to see if that helps with his stuffiness. Unfortunately, he caught his brother’s cold, mainly because Anthony loves him so much he wouldn’t stop kissing all over him when he was sick. Vince is a tad young to be using the Vick’s Babyrub (he’s only 2 mo and they recommend 3) but he is “large” for his age so I think I may give it a try. I was using eucalyptus in the warm humidifier but we ran out of it tonight and I’d like him to sleep!