So Tuesday was my first time ever....of having to remove something out of DD's nose...she is 13mnths. She shoved a cheerio right up the left side of her nose :lol: First I mistaked it for a boogie...til a closer look. Thankfully there were no tweezers involved. I finally managed to get it to slide out. She thought this was funny and never cried. She was eating her breakfast...so I am not sure how long she had it in her nose. My guess is maybe she was going for her mouth and hit a detour :lol: Too bad I didn't get pictures for future dating :lol: I called DH and told him at work...he announces it to his whole department while I am on the line(he's a proud daddy of everything :D )....thank goodness she is too young to care who knows.
It took me back to grade school. We had this one boy in our grade that you couldn't lend crayons to...cause he always shoved them up his nose and broke them off ...always had to go to the nurse's station to have them removed.:lol:
So what have you had to removed so far?

Thankfully, I've never had to fish anything out of either of my kids noses. My ds is five...I wonder if I'm completely out of the woods for this phase. :?: I sure hope I am!

My dd shoved a piece of a crayon up her nose when she was 2 and we had to take her to the doctor. That thing was way up her nose! Anyway the pediatrician couldn't get it out either and we had to go to a ear, nose, throat specialist. It took 5 adults holding her down to get it out! WHEW--what an experience! Stephanie :D

Angela shoved as many green peas as would fit up her nose when she 2...There were about 5 of those suckers up in there...Hubby fished them out while I held her down......I agree, what an experience! She learned it from it though, and moved on to cutting her hair :lol:

Raisins! [whatblah]

Alex hasn't stuffed anything other than his finger up his nose yet, but once we went out and walked on the boardwalk by the beach and he tripped, fell on his hands and got 8 splinters. it was such an ordeal to get them all out! we tried soaking, a needle, tweezers, even some weird banana peel remedy.

the next time we take him on the boardwalk he is wearing gloves, lol.

A couple of months ago my 7 year old daughter put a glass sea shell in her ear. It was after hours so we had to take her to the ER to have it removed (it was too far in for us to grab it). It was the first time that my husband wasn't the patient and that he had to take a child to the ER. He realized that waiting with someone is almost as hard as being the patient. :)

Nothing yet! :lol: I'm glad everything turned out okay!

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We've never had to deal with that, but my very good friend's dd stuck a paperclip up her nose and she had to have full-on surgery to remove it. Our neighbor's son put a battery up his nose and needed to be taken to the ER. :lol:

Here's the yucky one... When I used to do Sunday School at church, there was this little boy, bout 4, who came to church one Sunday smelling badly. [whateh] The next Sunday... MUCH worse. :shock: [whatconfused] The NEXT Sunday... couldn't breathe around him. :shock: [whatblah] That Wednesday night, his mom brought him to the church nursery and the smell would make you throw up. We called her back and talked to her. She said she'd tried everything and had no idea what it was. We told her to take him to the doctor, something is very wrong.

ONE MONTH OLD FOOD UP THE NOSE!!!! Rotton, infection, pus... GAG!! [whateww] [whatblah] He needed antbiotics. Told ya it was gonna be yucky! :lol:


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Here's the yucky one... When I used to do Sunday School at church, there was this little boy, bout 4, who came to church one Sunday smelling badly. [whateh] The next Sunday... MUCH worse. :shock: [whatconfused] The NEXT Sunday... couldn't breathe around him. :shock: [whatblah] That Wednesday night, his mom brought him to the church nursery and the smell would make you throw up. We called her back and talked to her. She said she'd tried everything and had no idea what it was. We told her to take him to the doctor, something is very wrong.

ONE MONTH OLD FOOD UP THE NOSE!!!! Rotton, infection, pus... GAG!! [whateww] [whatblah] He needed antbiotics. Told ya it was gonna be yucky! :lol:


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:shock: [whatblah] That is very yucky!!!

Sorry. :oops: [rofl]


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:lol:

I guess the mom wasn't as sensitive to the smell, being around it all the time. I couldn't imagine!

I have always wondered why she didn't take her son to the doc sooner. She seemed like a mom who felt kind of out of control with life, in general. I think it was just too much for her to figure out. She seemed relieved when we told her what to do. Sad.


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I haven't had to deal w/that so far w/my younger ds and didn't have to with my older ds either. But I have to share a d/c story about that.

They keep a girl that is almost 12 mos old. One morning she came in w/a stuffy nose and keep whining and rubbing her nose. So after bkfst, the sitter took her and was going to suckion her nose out and when she did she said there was an awful sound when it came out in the tissue. To her surprise it was a bug!! :shock: Yes, a earwig (or we call them water bugs here). Those flat bugs that look like they have pinchers on their fronts. Her mom said it must have crawled up there when she was laying on the floor before they left home! :shock: That would have freaked me out and I would have had to clean EVERYTHING at my house after that. No wonder the poor thing was whining. Can you imagine a bug up your nose????

Well once Abby nearly choked on a bottle cap :shock: that was very freaky. She managed to gag it out herself though. We didn't have to remove it.

Then once she nearly choked on a couple of wire mechanisms from clothing pegs. She actually swallowed one. But it passed naturally. Ahem. :oops: We didn't have to remove it with surgery.
The other one she gagged out.

My mum told me that I put green playdough in my ears once. LOL She had to take me to the doctors so he could remove it.

I hear that when I was about three, I ate half a pack of cigarettes. [whatblah] I know... It's a nasty habit, but you'll be glad to know that I kicked it after I had to have my stomach pumped. [rofl]


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thankfully I have never had to deal with that!

glad everything came out okay!

When I was about 3 or 4 I swallowed a small carpet tack, a gold cross and, if I remember correctly, some kind of a coin. :roll: I think one of my boys swallowed a small Lego piece at one time.

I hear that when I was about three, I ate half a pack of cigarettes. [whatblah] I know... It's a nasty habit, but you'll be glad to know that I kicked it after I had to have my stomach pumped. [rofl]


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:lol: well that's one way of putting a child off smoking! My grandfather made my mother smoke a whole pack of cigarettes when he caught her smoking. EWWW I don't think I would do that. :shock: But then he also used to belt them with his belt on their backs. Talk about "tough love" :cry:

Thanks goodness I've never had to remove anything from either of kids noses! But coincidentally one day when I still worked at the daycare, one of the little 18-month-olds got a small pebble from the outdoor playyard stuck up her nose. You should have heard her mom (who was a doctor!) when I called her and told her! LOL Hey - at least she didn't have to worry about doctor bills! :P

My dd is 2 and 1/2 yrs old and hasn't put anything up her nose so i guess i should count my blessings! :lol: Because having something taken out of your nose sounds painful. :? OUCH!

And joy i couldn't believe that story you shared. 1 Month old food!!! YUCK!!!

Oh dear don't even get me started on this one. When DD and DS were two, I looked across at them in their highchairs and noticed that DS had styrofoam balls in his ear (the tiny beanbag type). So I thought NP, take him to the doctor all over red rover... simple. I then noticed DD had the same, so they had basically sat there and shoved foam in each others ears.

I took them to the GP and he tried to fish around in DS ear to remove the foam and he went bananas and the doctor accidentally perforated his ear drum - so he then referred us to the CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL! DH was away, so I called my Mother home from work to help me.

Anyway... we sat in ER all day long, the ER doc tried to remove the balls, popped DD's ear drum, then told us "no, this will require anesthesia otherwise we will damage their hearing from all their wriggling about"
SO we fasted the poor twins ALL DAY, only to be told to come back in the next morning to be taken into surgery.

It was HORRIBLE, all over forgein objects - I had to go into theatre first with DD and pin her down so the anethetist could gas her, I felt like a monsterous murderer, she was just looking at me like "Why are you letting these people do this?" and when she went out, it was horrible.
I was crying all the way back to the waiting area.
Anyway, DD came out, she was going ballistic in recovery, so I had time just to cuddle her a bit before I had to repeat the whole thing with DS.
DS went out a lot easier with the gas than DD did, but it was still horrible.

DD eventually fell asleep but when DS came out of threatre he was obviously in pain because he was screaming and he was hitting me and kicking and squirming until I finally convinced one of the nurses to give him pain relief. He was ropable!!!

They finally let us take the twins home, we had spent a whole nother day at the hospital - and for a year the twins would not allow ANYONE to touch their ears. We still have problems with DS getting hair cuts because the scissors go near his ears.

The thing that gets to me is I was so careful with the foam because it is dangerous for kids and they had actually fished it out of the bin, so it wasn't like it was left around as such.

So foreign objects can be a REAL ORDEAL with kids!

Ahh...at least I know I am not alone. There are some funny ones mixed up in here :lol: The one about the food...whew...I couldn't even begin to imagine the smell. Thank goodness, I have not had to remove anything else from her nose. I guess the urge has not hit her again :lol: I can say one thing is true with kids...when you have them...there is never a dull moment.