Help! Think DS might have swallowed a plum stone!

[wastingmyeducation]

I gave DS (13 months) a plum while I finished cooking and when I came back he'd finished it.

He was chuntering and I fished the skin out of his mouth, but no stone to be seen.

What should I do?

[GhostOfPsychomum5]

is he choking??

if not, I would say watch his nappy for a few days, and it will appear

[wrinklytum]

Wait for it to pass out the other end [WINK]

Seriously I am sure he will be fine.:0

[CherryChoc]

Presumably you are past the choking danger - I think the only problem will be it coming out the other end - so not an emergency, but potentially damaging/painful there - have you an out of hours GP you can phone for advice? NHS direct are really busy at the moment.

I think if you know it won't be broken down by the digestive process you need to see someone tonight as a child's digestive process is quicker than an adult's.

[CherryChoc]

Oops, I hope I didn't sound too scary! Listen to the other posters, they have more children than me, evidently

[wrinklytum]

IIRC Psychomum has 5 kids (Brave lady).I only have 2 but they have swallowed their fair share of small objects and have been OK :0

[JackBauer]

[wastingmyeducation]

Thank you all, v. reassuring.

DH read the messages to me while I was on the phone to NHS Direct.

They said to keep an eye on him, watch for him guarding his tummy and wait for it to come out the other end.

Which is what I thought anyway!

If it had been me I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

I may eat all the plums now so I can't forget to cut the stone out before handing to my precious boy.

[GhostOfPsychomum5]

he will be fine.

if it helps....DS2 ;ast year or so 'ate' a glass pebble (you know, the decorative type..at age 5 or 6).

I took him to A&E as he kept saying he could still feel it in his throat.........but on xray was found in his tummy......throat presumably bruised.

it shot out, 5 days later, like 'a bullet fro a gun'!! we still have the mark where it hit the toilet....

he was fine obviously, and proud of his 'shot'

[wastingmyeducation]

[Rolf]

I've been directed to this thread as exactly the same thing happened to my 12 month old today (the only difference being that I wasn't cooking, I was mnetting, and she swallowed 2 plum stones ). She did a huge poo about 5 minutes later which I think contained the stones. I couldn't actually see them in the poo (isn't this nice?) but it was about twice as much poo as she's ever managed before.

It's comforting to read all the reassuring comments.