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PeePee Bottle?

I can't wait to hear what you guys think of this invention by a woman in Cooper City, that I've peepeebottle.jpg
just been emailed about.

Apparently this mom, Alexandra, was mortified when her little girl caught Rotavirus from a public toilet seat, she says, and so she had her daughter peeing into a urine specimen bottle from the pediatrician. But that bottle wasn't big enough, after awhile. So this mom created the PeePee Bottle. You buy these bottles for 10 bucks that look like water bottles, but in fact they are for your child to urinate in!

I still can't get over the fact that these look just like drinking bottles, in pink and blue. I don't know if my daughter could use one of these without making a mess, but according to the maker of the PeePee Bottle, these are quite convenient and hygienic and can be carried in your purse!

Um, I guess it might come in handy on a long car trip, as long as your kid only needs to go "Number 1.''

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Just silly! If ever you really needed such a thing it looks like any bottle would work the same.

It is true any bottle could be used but one would have to make sure it is leak proof and odor proof. I can see where having a bottle marked as a pee pee bottle would be useful so that the bottle is never mistakenly used for another purpose.

I have had occasions with my granddaughter where this item proved to be very useful and handy, not to mention of course safe. I have found it to work as advertised.

I would recommend it to all parents of young children who are concerned about the health risks of their children using public restrooms.

nalgene polycarb water bottle that looks like that in the picture but bigger is only about 2-3 bucks at walmart:P
no need for 10 dollars, if you can't pee into the nalgene type opening, somethings wrong with your plumbing!;)

nalgene polycarb water bottle that looks like that in the picture but bigger is only about 2-3 bucks at walmart:P
no need for 10 dollars, if you can't pee into the nalgene type opening, somethings wrong with your plumbing!;)

Quite frankly if you can't let your kids use a public bathroom you're over protecting them. This is only really useful if you have a very long journey to make and can't keep stopping for them to go pee (or find a place for them to pee unseen) which is probably a better option really.

why would you buy this? when we go on long walks in the forest and the kids need to pee we just use waterbottles ( the girls dont like going in a bush )

if a girls gota go pee just let do it in a bush or somewhere other then a botle cause she will need to use a toliet at somepoint plus If guys do why the hell cant we I mean we even have less stuff to look at

but some girls dont like squatting down in the bushes to pee like my little girls and wife.

i like the thought of this womans idea of pee pee bottles for girls cause im a man with multiple dissabilities and i use a bottle to urinate in i feel so comfortable i have been weeing in a bottle most of my life i feel good doing it and i feel comfortable doing it i hope her daughter feels comfortable doing it its fine with me shes a good little girl

Hi all!

Well, me, my lad and the girls are always out and about when their Mom is at work. I too have had a similar idea, because it is getting difficult to justify my eldest daughter pulling her pants down at the side of the road at Eleven. Not that she cares, but a person told me politely a few months ago, that 'someone might look!', lol. I'm not really sure why someone would not look, but hey, it seems to be the culture to hide nature away now :(

I have bought a small camper van so there is plenty of privacy and I use a little thin card from a teabag box or whatever to make a funnel with a wide triangle opening at the top. If we're not near the car, well my son will go anywhere, obviously! The girls however can undo their jeans zip (keeping the button closed and the jeans up) and put it in and underneath so they can pee like a boy! They all find this both amusing and convenient. They definitaly do not like public toilet seats, but if they have their way they will all pee outside anyway. I spent ages looking for a public loo a few days ago, and they all waited till they were done to point out that 'theres one over there!' as if they did't know, ha.

If we're in the van then I get my son to use the device as well, because I don't want him to miss the bottle or pot (whatever is free) but I would not buy a specail bottle because you can just empty it out the window once you have finished. I would be lying if I said this method had not saved me from time to time as well, and last week, on our way to a picnic, their Mum even found one of my funnels convenient when we pulled over and she felt it was too open for her to pull her jeans down.

I found the device that I make (or something similar) can now be bought comercaily. One version is aptly called the shewee (www.shewee.com) and probably costs a forthune. For a little time and imagination, with no cost, you can keep your sons and daughters away from dirty toilet seets, your daughters cute BUMS away from dirty prying eyes (it's only natural to look at kids cute bums, but in this day and age, its probably polite not to put people in that position of feeling that they will get acused for admiring whats harmless and cute :{ ) and your sons/daughters wee wee will be in the bottle, rather then on the van carpet!

Hope this helps, get the Blue Peter badges out, hehe

Sensible Dad

not sure its a good idea you hold it to the child because they might not like you looking.

Why cant they use a mouth????

Stop at the roadside, lay back on the seat she sits astride you and pees

Why cant they use a mouth????

Stop at the roadside, lay back on the seat she sits astride you and pees

Rotavirus is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. It is the leading single cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children.[1] By the age of five, nearly every child in the world has been infected with rotavirus at least once.[2] However, with each infection, immunity develops, subsequent infections are less severe,[3] and adults are rarely affected.[4] There are seven species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Rotavirus A, the most common, causes more than 90% of infections in humans.

Rotavirus is transmitted by the faecal-oral route. It infects cells that line the small intestine and produces an enterotoxin, which induces gastroenteritis, leading to severe diarrhoea and sometimes death through dehydration. Although rotavirus was discovered in 1973[5] and accounts for up to 50% of hospitalisations for severe diarrhoea in infants and children,[6] its importance is still not widely known within the public health community, particularly in developing countries.[7] In addition to its impact on human health, rotavirus also infects other animals, and is a pathogen of livestock.[8]

Silly idea. My two daughters (ages 11 and 9) carry a spray can of Lysol into public restrooms and spray the seat before they sit.

When they have to "go" on long trips in the car and I can't find a restroom, they pee in a wide-mouthed cup (a large-sized Taco Bell drink cup -- costs nothing) and I dump it out the window.

And when we're in the woods hiking or camping, they squat and pee behind the bushes.

To spend $10.00 for an empty bottle for a kid to pee in is just plain stupid, in addition to being overprotective.

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