For the longest time, I had an insane fear that one day my daughter was going to get something stuck up her nose. You don't have to tell me how crazy it sounds. I get it. But I'm betting 6-year-old Isaak Lasson's mom would think I sound perfectly balanced.
Her son just had a LEGO removed from his nose ... three years after it got lodged up there. Ahem, still think I'm nutty?
This poor little boy had spent three years struggling to breathe, especially at night, and his parents couldn't figure out why. Visits to various doctors never seemed to solve things. Even antibiotics didn't clear things up. Until a few months ago when a doctor noticed something up there and asked Isaak what it was. Get this: the kid remembered putting spaghetti up his nostril once. He didn't remember the little rubber LEGO tire that a specialist eventually pulled out of his nose (and neither do his parents, of course).
It's a good ending -- Isaak is now fine and breathing much better. But it just cements my fear, honestly. The kid remembers putting OTHER stuff up his nose. So apparently this was a practice he'd done more than once.
THAT is exactly what freaks me out. I was looking the one time she did it (several years ago now), and what resulted was a frantic call to my (nurse practitioner) mother from my cellphone to ensure that she wasn't going to end up with some weird infection from the naughty nostril action. She assured me all would be fine, so long as we got that thing out of there. But I couldn't help wondering what would happen if she did it when I wasn't looking ... and didn't get it out.
Now I know. And it's not exactly comforting!
Does your kid specialize in sticking stuff up the ol' schnoz? What do you do?
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My youngest stuck a lego up his nose when he was three. He was totally freaked out when it wouldn't come out. I called the doctor's office and the nurse i talked to told me this trick.
Cover the one nostil that doesn't have the object in it. Then cover the child's mouth completely with your own and give a short hard breath into child's mouth. I had to do it a couple of times but the Lego popped right out.
He tried to stick something else up there one more time, but it was traumatizing enough that it hasn't happened again.
Now that only works if you know the child has some stuck up his nose. :D
okay how do doctors not notice there is something up a kids nose?
my oldest nephew once stuck a bead up his nose. the random thing was when he stuck it up there he manged it with the bead hole pointing down so he was able to breathe through it. my brother and sister-in-law kept looking up his nose cause he said it hurt. my brother finally shown a flash light up there and found out what the problem was.
WOW! That's definitely on my list of weirdest unfortunate child events. I just don't understand how that can happen.
As a kid, my parents told me the only thing you put into your body is food that I feed you.
Needless to say I watched my oldest like a hawk. He never shoved things up his nose, but he did try to eat loose change several times.... Ick!!