Horrors- Shot sucking 101

Both of my boys are SICK right now! Man I thought we skated past the sick season, guess it came late. Off to the DR and they both had conjunctivitis...aka the Pink eye! With the thickest, nastiest coughs I have ever heard. Max like the dramatics and hacks and wheezes and then gives a big growling yell at the end to cap it all off. He loves to throw me in a panicky spin, and he is only 16 months. Not to mention the SNOT! Oh geez, let it FLOW.....


So in comes the The Arianna Baby Vac Nasal Aspirator. Okay I bought this when Maxten was a wee babe, but I haven't used it like I should. We were using the blueish bulb syringe but it was hell, he hated it. Plus you have to do it like 10 times before you get any results. Drama! This one you literally hook it up to your vaccuum hose attachment. No really you do. And no it doesn't suck their brains out, I tried it on me first it really does a quick job.
You are not really suppose to stick it in their nasal passages just right outside and it clears the way. I would say the down side is that our vaccuum is SSSOOO loud that it scares the crap out of the kids so you have to get them in a headlock , not nice. (see it in action)

We got ours from Cheeky Monkey.



In one of my random recent searches I came across this little sucker (sorry) which I had seen during my initial booger sucker research but now it seem like the wiser , albeit icky-ier choice. The Nosefrida Nasal Aspirator..MOM POWERED!
Eeeewww, is the initial though. Blech. Yipes. Gag. But knowing how AWESOME the Baby Vac works this is like the ultimate choice. Same power no noise! Now let's be real, no kid is going to like to get there boogers sucked out of there head which means there will probably still be some stuggle . But this one would be quite, quick, no batteries....just makes sense.
And from what I have read you cannot get the babies cold from doing this, there is a filter between you and the snot so you don't actually suck anything in but filtered air. Still kinda makes me wanna gag, but I will probably get one anyway.