{"id":1663,"date":"2007-04-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-25T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T08:22:46","slug":"nosefrida-nasal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/nosefrida-nasal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nosefrida Nasal Aspirator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nosefrida is a remarkably effective tool for sucking snot out of a kid&#8217;s nose.  It&#8217;s basically a flexible plastic tube with a mouthpiece on one end and a snot-collection chamber on the other. You put the mouthpiece in your mouth, press the open end of the snot-collection chamber against your kid&#8217;s nostril (it doesn&#8217;t go very far inside the nose), and SUCK.  An inline filter prevents the snot from ending up in your mouth. The filter only needs to be changed when it gets gunked-up.  Such gunking can be avoided by stopping periodically and blowing the collected snot out into a sink or emesis basin.  Otherwise, if you keep filling up the snot-collection chamber, it eventually makes its way up to the filter. To clean, I just disassemble it and run warm water through it.  Real easy.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds disgusting and bizarre, but it works like a charm. If you&#8217;ve got a snotty kid, it&#8217;s the best $15 you&#8217;ll ever spend. My daughter got her first cold when she was three months old.  It was a real nasty one, with lots of nasal congestion.  My wife is a family doctor, and she suggested the standard course of action: spray saline up the kid&#8217;s nose and try sucking the nastiness out with a bulb syringe. Anybody who&#8217;s ever used a standard bulb syringe knows that it&#8217;s a suboptimal tool for this project, for two main reasons:  (1) A bulb syringe is too small to generate adequate suction to pull thick snot out of a kid&#8217;s nose, and (2) little kids hate having a bulb syringe stuck up their nostrils. Can you blame &#8217;em?<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child-friendly mucus removal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[701],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}