Snotsucker vs. squeezy bulb

Even the best-behaved baby nose becomes a booger wonderland occasionally, and when it does a parent has to decide how to remove the offending articles.

On the left the traditional method, favored by hospitals and used at home by many parents. On the right, the Swedish Nosefrida or Snotsucker, endorsed by EdwardCo.

The bulb system has a few drawbacks. You have to squeeze the bulb and then insert the tip into a nostril, then unsqueeze while moving the tip about to suck out the boogers. If you got it right, and got it all, you now have a bulb full of boogers, which you're going to have to rinse out with more bulb squeezings, and judge when you got it all out by feel or guesstimation.

With the snotsucker, you apply the tip to the nostril in question, popping the mouthpiece in your mouth, then suck as long and as hard as you is required, allowing for baby nose size, booger viscosity, wind direction etc.. The boogers are collected in the boogerpod, stopped from swooping up the tube and into the parental gob by a foam filter. You then delatch the boogerpod and rinse it under a tap, blowing it through while still partly full of water for extra booger release.