Put your baby in his or.
Baby vicks on newborn feet.
Take a pair of old baby socks and cover the feet to keep the rub intact.
Smooth a small amount of vicks baby rub onto your baby s feet before he or she goes to sleep.
I have been reading all sorts of articles all night and have been asking lots of other moms on fb and my own friends.
If your baby is under the age of 2 you should never apply vicks to their chest nose feet or elsewhere.
Though vicks states on its.
Procter gamble s product label warns it is not indicated for children under two.
Can be used as needed on babies 3 months and older.
Yes only use the baby rub the regular contains camphor menthol where as the baby version only contains aloe extract eucalyptus oil lavender oil and rosemary oil.
Combined with your loving touch it is perfect to calm soothe and relax your baby.
We recommend vicks vaporub be used according to package instructions which is to rub a thick layer on the throat and chest for cough suppression in adults and children 2 years and over.
I did try it on lo s feet it worked a bit but we also did the garlic oil on feet too and that worked as well.
Vicks vaporub is a medicated ointment containing camphor eucalyptus oil and menthol.
Here are the steps.
The active ingredients can help suppress a cough and clear a person s airways.
Even if you place your baby in a.
Vicks babyrub is a non medicated formula that contains fragrances of eucalyptus rosemary and lavender.
It could be the vicks clearing their nose it could be that i m massaging their feet and hitting some sort of pressure points that s activating their immune systems i ve read this is the reason it works it could all be some crazy coincidence.
Vicks vaporub is manufactured by procter and gamble so i spoke first with spokesperson velvet gogol bennett about the safety of using vicks vaporub on an infant s feet which isn t recommended on the product s label.
But rubin said some parents may still choose to use it for a sick child usually by rubbing the salve on the feet.
The most recurring remedy i keep hearing is to rub the baby vick s on the bottom of his feet and cover with socks.
We use baby vicks on the kids and like you said apply it to the bottoms of their feet before bed under socks.
It will likely not work to help ease cold symptoms when used on the feet.
Some people say it s a miracle cure some people say their kids slept better and or felt better.
