one of my first graders stuck an eraser up...

[arkansas mom]

DS 3 at the the time put a pebble up his nose. Mentioned it in passing that evening. Of course, I'm running around freakin out. I tried to really think it through and came up with...pepper! Get him to sneeze it out. Well the pepper went into his eyes,not his nose, but he cried so much he got all snotty and it fell out! I'll be publishing my book entitled "1001 Brilliant Home Emergency Techniques" this fall.

 

[Sleepy]

My son stuck half a peanut up his nose. The doc in the ER used a manipulated paperclip and it was out in about half a second.

 

[Sleepy]

I wish I could remember more details - but there was a two year old at the child care center I worked at who stuck bread up his nose -- way, way, way up - didn't tell anyone about it or complain (no one was sure if it happened at home or at the center) but he got a terrible infection from the mold that grew on the bread - and how badly it smelled

My brother stuffed foam rubber (pillows had that in the early 70's) up his nose when he was a toddler. Mom never knew about it. My brother developed a runny nose that never went away. Mom finally took him to the doc because he started smelling terrible, but she always bathed him so there was no explaination. The doc looked up his nose and found the rotten foam rubber. When he removed it, mom said she gagged from the smell. The doc told her the strangest thing he ever saw was a dry pea that had actually sprouted inside a childs nasal cavity.

 

[klmall]

When I taught 7th grade one of the boys, the only son of a school board member was playing with coins in his hands. Of course, he "accidentally" swallowed a quarter and I sent him to the nurse's office. As a second-year teacher (without tenure yet) I was super nervous but the father was very pleasant and didn't blame me at all. Whew!

Many, many years later my DS, then 14! did the same thing but with a nickle. We were sure it went down okay and an x-ray confirmed that much but of course, he refused, to "check" how do I say this nicely, the exit contents, to be sure. Eventually since he was eating normally and had no digestive problems we just decided all was well.

Must be genetic because one of my younger brothers did the same thing but the coin became lodged before moving to his stomach and he was taken in for surgery when he was nine. Just as the anesthesia took effect the diaphram relaxed and the coin moved down. Hence the family phrase: "The stomach is not a bank!"

 

[mrsheppo]

DS stuck a bean up his nose when he was in kindergarten. I got a phone call from the principal who told me I needed to come and take him to emergency. The school nurse was half hysterical as she couldn't remove the bean.

I leaned over and whispered to my son, "if you don't blow that bean out of your nose, the doctor at the emergency room will give you a shot with a BIG needle". Next thing you know he blew his nose, said bean came out and I was saved an emergency room bill.

The principal and school nurse could not believe what had taken them over an hour to try and solve took me 2 minutes to fix.

 

[jennyl772003]

About a year ago, my nephew stuck one of those Red Hot cinnamon candies up his nose. My sis took him to the ER. They couldn't get it out, but by that time he had a nice stream of red slime coming from his nose. They figured it would dissolve on it's own. I don't think he will ever do that again, cuz melting cinnamon candy really irratates a nose!

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

These made me :

DS stuck a bean up his nose when he was in kindergarten. I got a phone call from the principal who told me I needed to come and take him to emergency. The school nurse was half hysterical as she couldn't remove the bean.

I leaned over and whispered to my son, "if you don't blow that bean out of your nose, the doctor at the emergency room will give you a shot with a BIG needle". Next thing you know he blew his nose, said bean came out and I was saved an emergency room bill.

Needless to say, she was screaming and crying after being strapped down and poked at like that, I was upset too, obviously. We both sat there crying and she created enough lube with all of the snot from crying that the button flew out on it's own.

We left, and then got the bill from the ER. We had to pay $100 ER co-pay, and our insurance company had to pay $460. I would have pinched her at home to make her cry if I had known all it would take was a little snot.