Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Any tips for drama-free boogey removal?

I'm being very kind in calling these things "boogeys"  DD has a nose full of dried up snot (sorry so graphic) and she looks like a little street urchin!  But if I go near her nose, she turns into Bruce Lee, kung fu blocking my every move. She's good, too.  A little too good...  Some days I just say "fine" have a nose full of boogeys, but it gets to a point that I can no longer as a responsible parent allow my child's nose to look like that.  I know it hurts when they get really dried and hard, but they HAVE to come off!! 

I miss the days when she was a sleepy little newborn and I could clean her nose, wipe her face and wipe her eyes without a shogun showdown!

Re: Any tips for drama-free boogey removal?

  • When you figure it out, let me know.
  • Great question!  Sometimes if I sing a siily song and make silly faces then go in quick for the nose wipe I can get it done without too much drama.  But sometimes she's on to me too quickly.
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  • run the hot water in the bathroom & sit in the steam with her. it will loosen everything up.?

    then wipe it off when she's not looking.?

  • I don't think there is a good way. I just bought a battery operated nasal aspirator (paid for overnight shipping after the smackdown of all time with the bulb). But for the dried ones, sometimes I put saline solution on a q-tip and use that, but most of the time he freaks.
  • i shoot him him up with saline before bath or at the beginning of a change. ?The saline has a couple minutes to loosen things up and then i basically pin him down with one arm and go to town with the other arm. ?i hate torturing him but i hate the sound he makes when can't breathe more. ?GL!
  • we just take the drama-laden approach.  it takes 30 seconds, DH pins him down, and I go to work.  When it's over, he forgets it ever happened... until he sees me coming the next time :)
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  • If they are dried, I wet a very soft towel and wipe his nose.  The wetness usually draws out most of the dried superboogies.  It may take a couple of wipes but it works. 
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  • I am LMAO!!! Oh, I am so glad I am not the only one roughing up (or getting roughed up by) my kid in the name of boogey removal.  I need something that spray saline up her nose from across the room, 'cause she ain't lettin' me near her nose with ANYTHING.  I may try this steam in the shower tip, though.  I have to be stealthy...but it could work!  Thanks for the tips and the laughs, ladies!
  • I don't have any good suggestions; my daughter is the same way.  I just wanted to say your daughter is adorable!
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  • i go for the stealth approach.  I dangle a toy above his head, he reaches up to grab it and look, and i attack with the bulb syringe!
  • imageCrazycrustacean:

    run the hot water in the bathroom & sit in the steam with her. it will loosen everything up. 

    then wipe it off when she's not looking. 

     

    how long do you sit there?

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  • I was wondering how you get the loose snots out. DS has a cold and its impossible to get the boobies out. I have the battery operated asperator and he freaks the second he sees it. I can't even hold him down anymore for fear of hurting him.
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  • Ben is the same way.  I usually get him in his high chair and get in there with a warm, wet papertowel or my finger nail.  Gross, I know...but you gotta do what works.  And I wash my hands afterwards.
  • DS has a cold and its impossible to get the boobies out.

    neya~ your son has boobies in his nose?!  Yowza!   ;p

  • imageseans_grl:
    Ben is the same way.  I usually get him in his high chair and get in there with a warm, wet papertowel or my finger nail.  Gross, I know...but you gotta do what works.  And I wash my hands afterwards.

     

    Both the wet paper towel and the fingernail have received the smackdown.  They are on DD's "do not approach" list for sure.  Right now, the process basically involves a headlock and and baby wipe or a warm cloth.  I feel sorry for the little girl, but she's gotta learn...no boogies--or boobies--in your nose!!!

  • We fight it here.  It's a battle...sometimes she wins, sometimes I do.
  • imageseans_grl:

    DS has a cold and its impossible to get the boobies out.

    neya~ your son has boobies in his nose?!  Yowza!   ;p

    rofl you know what's on my mind

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  • I do an attempted drowning with a wet washcloth in the morning bath and it clears out all the overnight boogies.  DD thinks it is great fun and tries to eat the washcloth.  During the day I go head to head with her with the boogie sucky out thingy or one of the baby qtips.
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  • I do an attempted drowning with a wet washcloth in the morning bath and it clears out all the overnight boogies.  DD thinks it is great fun and tries to eat the washcloth.  During the day I go head to head with her with the boogie sucky out thingy or one of the baby qtips. 
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  • I do an attempted drowning with a wet washcloth in the morning bath and it clears out all the overnight boogies.  DD thinks it is great fun and tries to eat the washcloth.  During the day I go head to head with her with the boogie sucky out thingy or one of the baby qtips.  
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