Nosefrida: Better than the Blue Bulbs

I have to tell you about my new favorite product. It is a nasal aspirator called Nosefrida that works so much better than those blue bulbs. Baby Talk called it a Nose Hose, and that is basically what it is.

You take the plastic end and place it at the opening of the nose. Then you take the end of the hose and suck. It sounds so gross at first, but don't worry, there is a filter that makes it impossible for anything to get into the hose, thus ending up in your mouth. Everything stays in the blue plastic part. Then you pull it apart, clean the blue part with warm soapy water and replace the filter. That's it!

I love that the blue container is clear. That way I can see if I got things out or not. The end is also wider, so it provides a better seal in the nasal passage, thus allowing me to get more out. I hate using the tiny bulbs that don't clear everything because they are too small. This is nice and big and helped me clear a stuffy nose on a toddler. Now this was stuff I couldn't see, but I knew she was stuffed up because I could hear it. So this is one powerful sucker! The nice thing is YOU control the suction. It is safe to use on newborns up to toddlers.

We have recently gone through a bout of sickness, along with stuffy and runny noses. I bet all of you moms out there with toddler know how hard it is to try to get a toddler to blow their nose. It's pretty much impossible. And there's no way they are letting you near them with the bulb to help clear things out. I have to tell you though, my daughter loved this! She was a little cautious at first, but then once I did it, she thought it was funny. It didn't pull things into the blue container, but it got them all the way outside the nose, so I could quickly grab them with a tissue. After I was done my daughter decided she had to take it and play with it.

It took me a good long while to get it away from her!

Nosefrida was invented in Sweden by ear, nose, and throat specialists. There are plenty of testimonials on their site of people and doctors who think this is a great product. Want to see some clinical studies? They have those too! The best part is that this is a mom run business! Let's support mom businesses!

Nosefrida retails for $15 and comes with 4 filters. You can buy a pack of 20 filters for $2.50.

And for those of you thinking that this sounds great, and you'd love to try it, you're in luck!

Kaisa has offered to giveaway one Nosefrida to a lucky reader. And for all the rest of you who don't win, they want to offer a special deal. When you order from them and put my blog name, Sweet 'n' Sassy Girls, in the COMMENT LINE (not the coupon code line, their website is not yet set up for that), they will send one free filter bag with each order! Value is $2.50.

To enter

• Visit Nosefrida and browse around their site. Then come back here and leave me a comment telling me one of the places Nosefrida is carried.

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Contest will end Friday January 30th at 11:59 pm MT. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me, or I will draw a new winner. Open to US and Canadian residents.

Don't forget that if you order from them and put my blog name, Sweet 'n' Sassy Girls, in the COMMENT LINE (not the coupon code line, their website is not yet set up for that), they will send one free filter bag with each order!

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