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 best friend stuck a button up her nose when she was a kid....it's still there 25+years later. When they tried to removed it it actually got pushed up further and they were afraid to damage something. As a teenager her dentist found it on x-rays and it had acutally fused into her facial bones near her sinuses. She has always had trouble with her breathing.
When I was a kid and used to babysit, the boy put a marble up his nose. It was big enough for me to see when he showed it to me. I grabbed tweezers from the bathroom and got it out. I scratched the inside of his nose and it was bleeding. Then I freaked out. I called my mom (no cell phones then LOL) she came and looked at it, etc. When the boy's mom came home she woke him up and made him apoplogize for scaring me. I was so upset/relieved I started to cry. I did continue to babysit for them.
My daughter, now 10, was the queen of sticking sh!t up her nose when she was younger. In a little over three months' time we visited the walk-in clinic three times to have a pea, a bead and a French fry removed.