GWOB Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It is Feb., the snow came back, and things have been a little controversial here lately, so here's a thread to lighten the mood. BTW, this was our dinner conversation last night. In my child's nose, I have found: - a bead from a necklace in oldest dd's nose, which shot clear across the room when she blew her nose - a pea in ds's nose, sneezed out 2 days after we had peas for dinner - mashed potatoes, again in ds's nose (it is a great place to hid food) - pens, pencils, magic wands, dimes, and various other things Tell me my dc aren't the only ones who like hiding things up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Just snot. At times copious amounts of snot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Fortunately nothing in the nose but we had to have the ped dig a lego out of dd2's ear when she was younger. Yeeek! :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 When I was a kid I snuck a cinnamon Tic-Tac up my nose and when the red dye started melting off I went around pretending I had a bloody nose. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWOB Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 Fortunately nothing in the nose but we had to have the ped dig a lego out of dd2's ear when she was younger. Yeeek! :eek: :lol: My friend suspected a hearing problem in her son. When she took him in for an evaluation, the ped pulled out a bead. Hearing problem was miraculously solved! When I was a kid I snuck a cinnamon Tic-Tac up my nose and when the red dye started melting off I went around pretending I had a bloody nose. :D That's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfinlady Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Six kernels of corn. This was when the child was about a year old. At around the age of 11, I had to remove a piece of craft foam from his ear, the kind with the sticky back that kids use a lot. A few months after that, a tiny playmobil coin in his ear required hospitalization and sedation to remove. Nothing since then, and he's now 14, so perhaps he finally learned his lesson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeidiKC Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 what in the world?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 My youngest rolled up a 1/2 inch by almost 2 inch piece of candy wrapper and shoved it up his nose. That doesn't sound too bad, until I get to the part where it was up there for about 9 months :001_huh:. The doctor looked in his nose a couple of times from the estimated time of insertion to the time of retrieval, and never saw anything (he's a great pediatrician who will check out any issues with any of our boys anytime we have one in, so it's not like I scheduled appointments for the boy). The only symptom was a more on than off runny nose--no smell or anything, and the boy is one of the happiest kids you'll ever meet. We thought he was just a noisy breather. The last time our pediatrician looked, it was quite obvious something was there. He was ready to send us to an ENT because the runny nose had gone on so long, until he looked and laughed and told me to look. My son breathes much quieter now :lol:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 (edited) That's awesome! Feel free to use it to your advantage if you ever need to. :lol: Edited February 26, 2011 by Alphabetika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 A foil ball. Yes, this is what he picked up in private school in kindergarten. I get a call from this very proper ladylike principal stating my son has stuck a foil ball up his nose. I wanted to break into laughter, but not with this woman on the phone. By the time I got to school, it was out and he was back in class. I asked him why he put a foil ball up his nose. Because my friend dared me too. :glare: Not sure how I liked the peer pressure in K, but we had a nice chat about it afterward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlockOfSillies Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I read a news story once about a guy who stuck two cherry pits up his nose when he was 7 or so. The doc got one of them out but couldn't find the other one, and assumed he swallowed it. Fifty years later, after all kinds of allergies and sinus problems, his doctor put a probe up his nose and tapped something hard. Out came a calcified cherry pit. :ack2: But I'll never forget the quote from the guy: "You don't know how good it feels not to have a cherry pit up your nose." :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherryanne Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I read a news story once about a guy who stuck two cherry pits up his nose when he was 7 or so. The doc got one of them out but couldn't find the other one, and assumed he swallowed it. Fifty years later, after all kinds of allergies and sinus problems, his doctor put a probe up his nose and tapped something hard. Out came a calcified cherry pit. :ack2: But I'll never forget the quote from the guy: "You don't know how good it feels not to have a cherry pit up your nose." :lol: :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 a star sticker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Never anything up the nose here, LOL, save maybe a finger, but guess what I found in an ear one year when my younger son was still a toddler? A ladybug! Imagine my surprise! We used to have ladybugs that came into our house when the weather started to get cold looking for a place to hibernate. They would migrate to the ceiling corners or try to find a little cubby to hide in, such as under window sills, etc. I guess one found my son's ear while he was sleeping and thought it a perfect sized cubby. I had to pry him out with tweezers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 My kids didn't really do that, but my youngest did get a piece of dried macaroni stuck in her nose. If she hadn't sneezed, I'm not sure how I would have got it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristinaBreece Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 A crayon tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 1. A red-hot candy. First thought he had a nosebleed, but it was so cinnamon-y smelling :-). He did complain of a burning sensation. 2. Little legos - why?!? If they are old enough for little legos, surely they know not to put them into bodily orifices! Obviously NOT! 3. an macaroni noodle (from mac and cheese). It lined the nasal canal nicely so he could breathe through that nostril, but trying to get it out was tricky because it would break when I'd try to pull it out. Finally I used one of the infant nose sucker things. He was just about 12 months at the time. A little girl I knew years ago put an eraser in her nose. It was so far up there it couldn't be seen. The little girl started to stink terribly. Everyone was polite and said nothing about the strange smell. Eventually the parents got worried and took her to the doctor who found the eraser. She smelled much better after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Our ENT doc has several big framed pictures full of items he's removed from ears and noses. I even took a pic of them, I'll have to see if I can find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Every single one of my children have put M&Ms up their nose as have my neices, nephews, and grandchildren. I have also heard this from several other mothers as well. What in the world is it about M&Ms that make children think, "Oh, this must go up my nose" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Not my dc, but when my brother was a kid, my mother was once called out of work to go get him and take him to the hospital from preschool because he had some sort of horrible nosebleed that wouldn't stop. It turned out to be a large red bead. At least he didn't have to be rushed to the ER after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 (edited) My middle one put quite a few things up her nose; I don't know the half of it, just what she couldn't get back out. Once she sneezed a piece of apple out as we were leaving to see the doctor to help us because it was stuck, so we were saved the trip. My ds once had a pea stuck in his ear, and when I asked who it was, she told me it was him and then said, "because I stuck it in it." Since she'll be 13 this spring and I was constantly sleep deprived at that time, I've forgotten most of it. She also put scrambled eggs and carrots up her nose (this is what I'm finding out now that I asked the question. I don't think I ever knew about the scrambled eggs.) I'm sure there was more. My dc didn't put little legos up their noses, but my dd's used to wear Duplo legos in their hair. Edited February 26, 2011 by Karin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Island Academy Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 My youngest son, when he was 2, put a Lego hand up his nose. This required a visit to an ENT specialist for sedation and removal. I now have it pasted into his baby book. :tongue_smilie: I'm just glad he came to me right away and actually told me he had put it there, otherwise who knows how long it would have taken to figure that one out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 A hunk of pb&j pushed in deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Please-fair warning before you've posted it-so I can take precautions to not pee my pants when I see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Tell me my dc aren't the only ones who like hiding things up there. :lol: Mine never have. Just their fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Sprouted sunflower seed in ds's ear-does that count? I didn't realize bird food was "sproutable." We both learned something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Besides food, a big green bead. We had to go to the ER for that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Sprouted sunflower seed in ds's ear-does that count? I didn't realize bird food was "sproutable." We both learned something. :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Ds put a peanut in his nose. It was really stuck in his tiny nostril so I couldn't get anything up there to pull it out. I asked him if he could blow and held his other nostril shut. I was so scared he'd inhale instead (he was only about four), but he blew and it came out. Scary stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 You people crack me up!! Good thing I didn't have a cup of coffee on the go! DS5 is the one who experiments with his nose and ears. We've had: legos, Playmobil, marbles, game counters, various foods, stones, daffodil bulbs, sand, pennies, and spoons all stuck up or in at one time or another. Most came out with a hefty snort or head-on-one-side-and-shake; the pennies had to be removed with tweezers. Fun fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamom Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I had a button in my nose for a few days as youngster. I kept trying to tell my mom but she didin't know what I was talking about. When it finally came out I tols her it's grandma's button. I was at her house when I stuck it in.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKapers Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 This is too funny. My kids just have snot..... Nothing as exciting as seeds or beads..:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Hobbes put part of a lamp shade up his nose. He was reading and fiddling with the lampshade. A small piece came off and, while continuing to read, he absent-mindedly put it up his nose. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 DS went through a rather long phase where he felt compelled to put unpopped popcorn kernels up his nose and in his ears. And since I didn't let him have popcorn until he turned three, this wasn't happening when he was too young to know any better. I still remind him to leave all unpopped kernels in the bottom of the bowl when I give him popcorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMom2One Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I had to rush dd to the urgent care clinic once because she had shoved Playdough up her nose and I could not get it out. When it finally did come out, it was red melted goo. Yuck! :lol: Blessings, Lucinda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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