have had to hold their children down while a Doctor digs the nose out. My ds was complianing (to put it nicely)that his nose hurt. I asked my 2 year old if he put anything up it. No he says. I call my dh & tell him my thoughts, he says I be home at 5. I call my sister & mention this to her. She says that her nose hurts too, he just has a cold. Just as my dh is walking through the door ds starts sneezing, I am thinking it must just be allergies. I ask my dh to blow ds nose, ds takes off. I caught up with him in time to pull this little rubber disk out of his nose. I went to his room, because that is where he was before he started complaining. I find, the phone I took away from him (dh gave it back) & 2 more rubber disks. One is still missing! Great! Get him up to the hospital & find the other disk up the other nostril. I felt so horrible, they made me plug the empty side of his nose & breathe really hard into his mouth twice. He refused to kiss me the rest of the night. So then they decide to start digging. They spray this stuff up his nose to numb it. The room fills with the scent of banana's, I casually mention that he is allergic to banana's. They look at me like your joking, after checking it didn't contain them. The sad thing is he is to young to have learned not to do it again.

By Trina~moderator on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 11:08 am:

Yes, it is a very large club! LOL! Our ped. removed a raisin from my DD's nose when she was 3. It was REALLY up there. Kids....

By Amecmom on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 11:22 am:

I'm sorry you had such a rotten experience, Emily, but at least it's out. I remember as a kid I got a pebble up my nose - don't ask how, and yes, I think I was old enough to know better.

Anyway - it didn't come out - the doctor couldn't get it out, so it stayed for quite some time - over a year - until I sneezed violently one day (must have been working itself loose) and out it came.

I'm just waiting to see what my 2 1/2 year old gets himself into ...

Ame

By Coopaveryben on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 01:48 pm:

My son put an orange runt up his nose.

By Lauram on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 03:06 pm:

Nothing up the nose (yet) but ds#1 when he was five told me he ate 10 cents. I asked how he knew that and he told me he ate three dimes, threw up two and one didn't come back. He could do the math, but didn't have the common sense that maybe that was a BAD IDEA! I was so furious! We had to "wait" for it to come out (and dig through poop to see if it did). The first poop he flushed by mistake, so we did ALOT of digging until we finally gave up and figured it was in the septic tank!

By Amecmom on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 03:32 pm:

LOL Laura - that has to be one of the funniest things I have ever read!! (Although I'm sure it wasn't too funny at the time.)
Ame

By Emily7 on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 03:34 pm:

I thought the dirt he ate was bad. I think I am in for more than I expected.
I told my dh that I was going to quit, he just laughed & said it would never happen.

By Christylee on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 03:35 pm:

lol... Laura!

poor thing Emily, Brendan hasn't done anything like that yet. I can remember being six and trying to drink water out of my barbie cup and swallowing it. lol...

By Dana on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 03:39 pm:

What an awful ordeal. So glad you discovered it before an infection could set in. Oh the things kids do!

Bet you don't give that phone back to him! Is is a toy? You might need to call the manufactures to let them know. You may not have the first kid with a disk up his nose.

By Emily7 on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 05:21 pm:

No thats why I took it away. It is one of our old phones that my dh insisted it was okay for him to play with. Maybe dh will listen now!

By Amyk on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 05:48 pm:

I remember a story of my cousin putting a crayon up her nose years ago... she just graduated from Yale!

By Amecmom on Friday, June 4, 2004 - 06:55 pm:

Think the crayon got to her brain? Maybe she could start a new trend of crayon sniffing to increase children's intelligence?
Congrats to your cousin.
Ame

By Kernkate on Saturday, June 5, 2004 - 08:05 am:

The joys of motherhood
About 4 months ago my 3 yo DD had a bead up her nose. Luckily I was able to get it out.

By Vbw1978 on Saturday, June 5, 2004 - 01:46 pm:

we reomved a marbel from my Step daughters nose at the age of 4 !! OMG it was soo funny now that i look back at it at the time i was scared to death !

By Children03 on Sunday, June 6, 2004 - 07:54 pm:

My 4 year old got a small bead stuck up her nostril and she was old enough to push the other nostril shut and blow the bead out the other side. Two weeks after this, my 3 year old got a piece of foam puzzle stuck up her nose. She complained that her nose was hurting and then I realized when I looked up in there that she had stuck that foam puzzle up there. I freaked out, called my husband home from church and he got it out with small tweezers (which I was so mad that he was even trying that). He managed to get a hold of the puzzle with the tweezers and pull it out. My daughter's nose was bleeding a bit after that. I don't know what it is with kids sticking things in their noses. Too funny!

By Annie2 on Sunday, June 6, 2004 - 08:24 pm:

Two different kids, one stuck a pea up her nose, the other an M &M. I was able to get both out with tweezers!

By Andyjoy on Monday, June 7, 2004 - 12:46 pm:

My dad coaxed my mom into cuddling with him and watching TV in the other room while my sister (age 2 1/2) and I (age 4) ate ice cream in the other room. She was hesitant, be decided it was safe--they could hear us. Unfortunately, they assumed (wrongly!) that giggles were a safe sign.

I was pretending to be a walrus by licking all the ice cream off of the walnuts and sicking them just barely into my nose. Lisa would laugh hysterically, then I would do it again. Unfortunately I looked away for a second and she managed to shove 5 of them WAY up her nose. I saw her put in the last one and ran and got miy parents.

This was a major ordeal. The doctor couldn't see any nuts, and told my mom she was stupid for wasting his time. However, she believed me and made them stick with it until they found the nuts. They were so far in that they almost decided to operate!

When I was in jr. high I was eating bean soup when one of my friends said something so funny that it made everyone spew their milk or choke on their food. I, however, snorted bean soup up into my nose! I blew my nose, and thought I was fine, but about 15 minutes later, my nose was still itching. Then I sneezed and out came a whole bean!