I recall countless times as a child when Mentholatum and VVR were applied in and around my nose when I had congestion. It hasn't killed me yet. But I'd be careful using these products around children.
To quote Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, "The horror, the horror."
Just as we were getting to know them too. Maybe the hotdogs will give the glow indigestion and it'll spit them back out.