Tuesday, May 25, 2010

NoseFrida

Babies are incapable of blowing their noses so parents are confronted with the problem of how to get the boogies out of their little one's little noses. At the hospital, the nurse gave us an aspirator; a tiny, rubber bulbous device with a needle-like protuberance that's inserted into your baby's nose. You squeeze and release and, much like a turkey baster, the boogers are then sucked into the cavity of the aspirator. It's effective, but you have to stick it too far up the the baby's nose and the powerful sucking action scares the child. The NoseFrida, developed by Swedish otolaryngologists, is a less intrusive, gentler device. There's a long tube and mouthpiece attached to the cylindrical cavity and you suck the boogers into this chamber.

My little Claudsie does seem less freaked out by this new device but she is still afraid of it. She knows it by sight now, and whenever we break it out she turns her head and crawls away. Very sad. Anyhow, I thought this would be a funny ad campaign for NoseFrida. Should I send it to them and see if they pay me a million dollars?

9 comments:

Walden Wong said...

My first thought when I saw this... what if the parents suck too hard? Will they get a happy boogie meal?

dhp said...

sup waldee--actually, they provide a bunch of filters to insert in the tube. i just changed the filter this morning. super nasty.

Walden Wong said...

Lets hope those filters don't pop in the middle of a sucking process. It would suck to choke on a boogie (pun intended).

Xander Morgan said...

Dude, I cringed when I saw this. So gross...

Kaisa said...

Thanks for the review! We like the little ad...very clever. Unfortunately we are a small 2 person company so we can't offer a million dollars... Can we post your review on our Nosefrida Facebook fan page though?? We got a whole bunch of fans there. Thanks again, and have a very happy new year!
Kaisa,
Nosefrida

Daniel Fan said...

I have yet to suck up a "happy snotty meal" but I dread the day!

Anyanka said...

WOW I can't believe NoseFrida responded to you! Fame!!!

dhp said...

can't believe it either, anyanka--thanks Kaisa!

Anyanka said...

why is this coming up again?