Nasal Mucus Suction Battery Operated!

This probably wouldn't work right now but there is a nasal aspirator that is called Nosefrida (www.nosefrida.com). It is a Swedish product and it is the best because you control the suction. It sounds and looks a bit gross I know but when my daughter was suffering through her stuffy/runny episodes, all I wanted was to make it better fast. Don't worry there is a filter between the tube that goes into the nasal passage and the hose that you use to suction out the mucus. The suctions balls and battery-powered aspirators did not work for us. I now give the product to all of my soon-to-be-parents friends and they are all glad they had the product. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Use Nosefrida (www.nosefrida.com). It really works. I had to order it out of desperation for my daughter when she had RSV because all of the other tools suggested to us did not work.

I've seen in the One Step Ahead catalog a battery operated aspirator called Nasal Clear. I'm not sure how well it works but you can read the reviews for yourself.

http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId...

I second the nosefrieda. Best invention ever. And baby doesn't even mind when I use it.

I have a battery operated nasal suction and I like it. You can get them at Wal-mart or Target.

I did it the old-fashioned way. Here it goes:
Spray saline in the nose to keep it moist and loosen the mucus. Put your mouth over the baby's and GENTLY blow into it-almost like mouth-to-mouth. You will be able to tell if you need to blow harder by the amount of mucus that comes out. This is very effective. I've done it to my two boys, four nieces, a nephew, and two god-children.

Hey GM!

I do the old-fashioned way. It works excellently, and it gets out tons of mucus, but it is hard on the parent emotionally to do so once you hear, you may want to buy the below products mentioned! :)

I make a homemade saline solution with 8 oz. purified water, 1/2 tsp. sea salt & 1/4 tsp. baking soda (got the recipe from my allergy doctor who said people with allergies should do this sick or not). I have a suction bulb that we bought with a package of Little Noses nasal spray for infants. I fill the suction bulb with the homemade saline solution and squirt it up one nostril. It runs out the other along with mucus that is up in the nasal cavity. I do this anywhere from 2-4 times on each nostril depending on how clogged my daughter is. You can tell when less mucus starts running out and more just liquid water is running through.

Now the big question is: how do you hold the baby? With 3 colds and experimenting different ways, my husband and I were most effective this last cold in our position, and I am sticking with this one. Side Note-It really does take two people to do this unfortunately. If you can at least do it when they wake up in the morning after a long night of congestion buildup, that is great. Second best is when they wake up and before the go to bed. Beyond that as much as needed if the congestion is major before going down for any nap or sleep and up waking from any nap or sleep.

Back to how to hold them. What we do is my husband holds my daughter on her belly kind of like Superman and puts one arm across her chest to hold her arms down (so she can't bat away the bulb). We lean her head over the sink. I then reach around her head with one arm to hold her head still (she will jerk her head if she can), and with the other arm I squirt the saline solution up the nostril. Since she is hanging over the sink, things run into the sink. I then stop to wipe her nose with a warm, wet washcloth to get off the excess mucus because it hangs there like glue! I repeat the process until I don't see anymore mucus flushing out with the water.

It's a lot of work, but it works SO, SO, SO well!

Love in Christ,

Lisa :)

Maybe you're not using it properly? I would ask your pediatrician's nurse to give you a little reminder of how to use the suction ball. It's the most effective tool I know of for that age.

Good luck!

M.

Nosefrida - that is what everyone in my Moms group is raving about. They say that it is wonderful. Dr. Sears said so too. You don't have to actually insert anything inside their nose. I just ordered one of Amazon - evidently you can't buy one around the DFW area. You can google nosefrida or just go to amazon. Don't have mine yet so can't tell you for sure but I ordered it to try the next time my daughter has a cold. good luck!

Oh my goodness, I am so glad you asked! I have found the most amazing products, it's called NoseFrida. It is the best product out there to replace the bulb syringe. It is extremely effective at removing muscous from both my sons' noses. We've been using it since my second son was 4 weeks old and would recommend this product to everyone!

You can buy it at www.nosefrida.com. Let them know M. sent you :)

Depending on where you are at, you can go to any of the breastfeeding resource centers at either Harris Methodist or Presbyterian hospitals and pick up one of the hospital suction bulbs. They are much more effective than the ones that you get in the store and I think they are only $2-$3.

Isn't it awful -- we just want to help out the little ones so they can breath!!!

Sometimes those suction balls can get a little hole or leak and they will not work. Try another one, and see. Thats what worked the very best for me and still does 2 years later!! Good luck.

We have the one mentioned by Resa in the One Step Ahead catalog. We found it at Babies R Us for about $25 I think. It works very well and our 10 mo old doesn't fuss as much with it as she did with the suction ball. I believe it came with 2 tips and you can buy extra.

I swear this will work...it's the old school way of just getting a small cap of warm tap water and adding salt to it yourself. Then take a syringe (like the ones that come with Infant Motrin) and shoot up the warm water and salt mixture up his nose. Then take your fingers and wiggle them on his nose to help break up the mucus. I promise you that it works better than the saline spray and it is what our parents used to do with us!!! I would recommend shooting this warm water up his nose a few times before retrying the suction ball. I bet that this time you will definitely get a lot of mucus and it's safe too. Just be sure to keep a kleeniz close at hand and you'll probably have to hold him down in order to quickly shoot the warm water up his nose. Good luck!

Hi! I greatly recommend Nasal Clear's electronic aspirator. Babies R' Us sells it for $25. You can also purchase from One Step Ahead for about the same cost. We have had ours for over a year and it works great!! We threw out all our bulb syrignes and only use the Nasal Clear electronic aspirator. Our 2 year old son even likes it. He calls it the "booger machine."

I met a girl from Hungary that has a tool that is approved over there. It hooks up to the vaccuum and she says it is not at all so strong that it will suck your skin, just stronger than the suction bulbs, and very effective. I dont know where to find it, mabey the internet...

You might think it is gross but your mouth.
Women used that back in the days and it works perfectly.

Hey there - I have the same problem, my little girl inherited her Daddy's allergies and wakes up most mornings all stopped up and absolutely hated the bulb. My mom bought us a NaselClear for Christmas and it is amazing! You wouldn't believe how much mucas it gets out and the baby hardly fights it. Nothing like she did with the bulb. Here is the link: http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId...

Yuck! STopped up babies are so sad! I hated it when my kiddos were tiny and stopped up the most.

I really like the saline for kids with the long nozzle. It comes in a short blue, metal canister. I think it is Little Noses brand? It helps to really loosen up the clog so to speak, if you do it the way it suggests on the bottle. He probably won't like it at the time, but he should be able to breathe better after you do that and suction him out.

My neighbor has used the motorized sucker and likes it. I just used a manual one that has a very short tip that was rounded. Since it was rounded, it kind of sealed off the nostril we were suctioning and got more mucus out. YOu could also remove the tip to clean it. I don't know the brand, but I remember the bottom was blue and the tip was clear, hard plastic.

Good luck! I hope your little man feels better soon!

It also really helps if you close one nostril while suctioning the other.