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The Blue Rubber Item You Get After Birth is Not a Nasal Aspirator
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After a baby is born, a nurse puts a blue rubber aspirator in his bassinet. Parents commonly take this item home and use it to clean mucus from their baby’s nose. You should know, however, that this device is not a nasal aspirator. Instead, the hospital nurses use it to suck saliva or mucus out of a baby’s mouth after he spits up. The reason it should not be used in the nose is because the tip is pointy and can injure a newborn’s sensitive nasal passages. A true nasal aspirator has a blunt tip that can’t be pushed too far into a baby’s nose. The tip can also be removed so the inside can be cleaned out from time to time.
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By Jeffery,   From Salt Lake City
These bulbs are actually supposed to be used as a mucus remover. Whether that is in their nostrils or out of their mouth after they thrown up. Either way you should learn how to use them. The blue ones work the best at getting mucous and snot out of the nose. Yes you should be cautious. When you do use these make sure they are hospital grade if you need a place to get these I'd look at ww w.drnasalaspirator.c om

 
 
 
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