What has your child swallowed?

[mylilnikita]

Hi
DD8 has had tummy trouble for past couple weeks, last week took her to the Dr. and he thought it was virus and if it was still bothering her to come back, no fever, no vomiting or diareaha. I took her back yesterday, so he order lab work and x rays. He calls later that day,the x rays showed a foreign object inside her, possibly a piece of plastic. OMG! So, we have to go Wednesday to a surgeon for a consult to plan to get it out, we are all hoping it will free itself, but it hasn;'t happened. All I can think of is she may have eaten a piece of plastic from a freeze pop, I don't know. Prayers and Pixie Dust needed please.
What has your child swallowed?

 

[crazyme5kids]

My son swallowed the antenna from his cell phone.

 

[TerryKitten]

I swallowed a paperclip when I was 2 years old. My mom didn't know about it untill she found it in my diaper. No wonder I don't like paperclips

 

[MAKmom]

Sorry to hear that.
DD now almost 20 swallowed a dime. I found it in her diaper. I was a crazy person after that. Always on the floor looking around.

DD12 shoved hard plastic from packaging up her nose that was an emergency room visit.

 

[Chereya]

I swallowed a penny when I was 5. I told my grandmother who I was shopping with at the time because it hurt my throat. We went across the street to the ER and got an xray done. The Dr. basically said to wait and see. I guess it came out by itself.

My son, 3, just came home from school two days ago with what he said was a noodle in his nostril that he put there "because I did". My husband got it out with a tweezer - turns out it was a strip of rubber type caulking.

Kids are always putting random things into places where they might fit, "just because".

Chereya

 

[JadenLayne]

DS (now 15) came up to me when he was just talking and said,

Mama I swallowed 2 Quarters!

I freaked, took him to the E.R. and the x-ray showed 2 NICKELS....LOL.

He passed them.

Whats cool is that a few years ago he had to go the E.R. for stitches and we were talking about when he was a baby. Well the Dr. went and looked and sure enough the x-ray was still there with the nickels. He gave the x-ray to DS and he has it in his room.

 

[6_Time_Momma]

When Garrett was 2, he stopped eating. Every time he tried to swallow something, he IMMEDIATELY threw up. Took him to docs, said he had sore throat, put him on antibiotics. Still couldn't eat. Took him back. Told me he had a virus and needed to ride it out. Still vomiting, not eating. Very listless, took him to ER. BEGGED them to xray his throat. Doc there said, "I don't see a need. We'll rehydrate him. Contact his ped. I tmay have something to do with the Down Syndrome."

After two weeks and 2 1/2 pounds lost of of his 20 pound frame, I called the peds and told them either they refer him to a throat specialist or I will be in to pick up his chart and take him somewhere myself. She said "Okay, but kids with Down Syndrome often have difficulty swallowing." Uh, hello, he is 2 and NEVER had trouble swallowing before.

My mom was babysitting him that day while I worked, so I told her grab him and meet me at the specialist. She gets there and tells me he threw up before she left and there was a PENNY in it. IMMEDIATELY he was able to eat again.I'm guessing it had been lodgedin histhroat all that time.

Never went back to those peds!

 

[barkley]

one of those magnetix round magnetic balls. this happend right around the time the news was reporting a death of another child who had swallowed 2 they xray'd and confirmed it was just one and said 'it will pass'. i'm guessing it did because he recently had an mri and no round metal objects came ripping out of his body

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Younger dd ate an old robin's egg. I thought for sure she was going to get sick and die. Nothing happened.

 

[kaylajr]

My cousin was about 2 and he swallowed a LIVE TRANTULA

the Dr said his stomach acid killed the spider instantly

but he is now 30 and that is still a favorite family story

hope your DD is Ok

 

[MickiMouth]

My DD's never swallowed anything but older DD put an uncooked popcorn kernel in her nose and younger DD put the tip of a pencil eraser in her nose.
I hope everything goes well for your DD.

 

[CEDmom]

I guess I'm lucky, my DD has never swallowed anything that wasn't food.

OP, I'm sorry about your DD. Does she remember swallowing anything?

 

[Mermaid02]

My cousin swallowed my sea monkeys.

A family friends dd shoved about 3 feet of gauze up her nose when she was almost 3. They took her to the doc because her breath was really bad..... he started pulling that out of her nose and pulling and pulling and pulling.... never knew so much would FIT up your nose.

 

[Lars624]

My DS (now 17) swallowed a black marble when he was about 5..............my other DS (now 11) swallowed a penny at about the same age.

 

[jbmom]

My ds swallowed a bead, it came out fine. I'm surprised he hasn't swallowed a lot more, he put everything in his mouth. We call him goat.

My nephew swallowed about 5 straight pins while a friend of my sisters was watching him. They all passed through, don't know how. She didn't have that friend watch her kids anymore.

Good luck!!

 

[momof3disneyholics]

My oldest swallowed a penny when he was 1. It came out on its own. My other son has swallowed Barbie shoes, coins, and balloons.(they were deflated )

 

[golfgal]

Nothing weird that I know of. I remember daring my siblings to swallow coins, etc. My sister would tie things to a string, swallow it an pull it back up--she is still weird today.

 

[Bunchkin]

When DD was 2-3 yr old she swallowed a small collectible type rock. It was in a set of shiny, smooth rocks that she got from DH's ex-boss as a souvenir from a trip to the Wisconsin Dells that they had gone on.
Luckily it came out later in the day!!

 

[mylilnikita]

DD doesn't really remember anything out of the ordinar. I think it may have been part of plastic from a freeze pop, because sometimes she opens it with her mouth. Thanks to all of you, I feel a little bit better, especially after the tarantula one-and the straight pins ones,OMG!
When she was learning to crawl, she put a dime in her mouth and started choking and my DF got it out and she had put a bead in her ear when she was younger and my DF took her to the ER to get it out.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

My brother swallowed a plastic Tinker Toy part when he was about 3, and he also shoved a popcorn seed up his nose.