Can You Use a Pacifier to Dispense Medication?
Dealing with sickness is never easy, but by using all, or some of these products, especially the Ingy Bingy Band, it will save your sanity and make dealing with illness just a little easier!
By Emily Rogers
One of the most difficult parts of parenting babies/toddlers is the revolving door of illnesses. Winter is usually the time when we are slammed with illnesses, but this spring/summer my kiddos keep getting fevers, strep throat, and we are currently battling a double ear infection with our youngest!
All of this means we have the extra battle of dispensing medicine. Why does it always have to be a fight?! Don’t they know that taking the medicine will just help them feel better?! Of course, little people can’t understand this, but a mom can still dream!
One product that could make your medicine dispensing easier is a pacifier medicine dispenser. They run around $8-$13 and can be a total game changer during illnesses. Some are designed to release the medicine into baby’s mouth in a way that avoids their taste buds (such as their cheek) which reduces the chances of your baby spitting up the medication! If your baby is a pacifier lover, this is worth looking into!
Another product that helps make illnesses easier is the Ingy Bingy Band. Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do about sickness, but there ere is something we can do about helping our babies to self-sooth during their sickness. The Ingy Bingy Band has helped our daughter stay comforted and content through all of her colds and coughs.
Other products that will save your sanity during sickness:
- The Ingy Bingy Band: With such frequent coughing, without a pacifier wristband, an infant pacifier keeps falling out! However, with the Ingy Bingy Band, a pacifier wristband, she can take out her pacifier to cough and put it back in quickly and easily to soothe her whether it’s day or night! It’s helped her and ME stay calm and get so much better sleep as we navigate illness,
This pacifier wristband attaches to any pacifier and velcros around baby’s wrist. The absolute best part of this pacifier wristband is that from as early as 4 months your child can start using it on their own! This pacifier bracelet saves you time and frustration because you won’t be constantly looking for it and putting it back in your baby’s mouth when the newborn pacifier keeps falling out!
2. Humidifier: A humidifier can help your baby sleep so much better during their bouts of sickness! It can help to clear up their passages by adding moisture into the air. This will help you breathe and, therefore, also sleep easier!
3. Snot Sucker (Nasal Aspirator): Snot suckers are amazing inventions! Babies don’t know how to blow the mucus out of their noses so they need a little help! The NoseFrida is a popular option, but there are now electric options on the market that are so much quicker and easier, but more expensive!
4. Saline Solution: Put a couple of drops of saline solution up baby’s nose before you use the snot sucker to help loosen the mucus! This works like a charm!
Dealing with sickness is never easy, but by using all, or some of these products, especially the Ingy Bingy Band, it will save your sanity and make dealing with illness just a little easier!
The Ingy Bingy Band is not your everyday pacifier clip! This game-changing pacifier wristband helps babies self-soothe at a younger age than ever before! Instinctively, babies gnaw on their hands in an attempt to soothe. The Ingy Bingy pacifier wristband keeps their pacifier right where they’ll find it, allowing your baby to comfort and calm themselves while you do whatever it is you need to do!
Our buttery soft wristband comes in two styles to accommodate every pacifier.
Our Pacific style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Avent, BIBS, Dr. Brown’s, MAM, Nuby, NUK, Medela, FRIGG, Nanobébé, Tommee Tippee, and Chicco pacifiers.
Our Sequoia style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Itzy Ritzy, Ryan & Rose, and The Dearest Grey pacifiers.
If you are still unsure which pacifier wristband style is right for you, check out our style guide or text the name and/or picture of your preferred paci & we’ll let you know which style is right for you!