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DH just had to take 5 year old DD to A&E

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Peopleplease · 25/02/2019 18:14

Because she pushed a bit of paper into her ear! I would expect it of 2 year old DD but thought 5 year old was past this stage.

Apparently she wanted to pretend it was wax! (She does have issues with wax build up and has had drops and liked getting bits of wax out!)

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Fluffytheevil1 · 25/02/2019 22:21

My ds put some paper in his ear to ‘see what it was like’. He announced it was hurting him on the way to his swimming lesson. I had to turn around and bring him home and luckily I got it out with some long nosed tweezers. And I got him to swimming on time...😆

stayathomer · 25/02/2019 22:53

*We ended up at A&E last weekend as my DS aged 3 swallowed a coin. Twit.

44hours later it appeared*
Your ds is so lucky. When in the go sd pital we met a mother of a 3 yo who had been in hospital for four weeks after swallowing a penny-apparently it's like grapes or anything the size where it can lodge itself across the throat so she couldn't breath, they had to operate to take it out and she'd only just come off a respirator.

happypotamus · 25/02/2019 23:04

When DD was 4 I got the dreaded phone call from the school to say I needed to collect her and take her to A&E. A plastic bead had apparently jumped into her nose all by itself (nothing to do with her obviously!) and wouldn't come out. The teacher had tried and I tried but it wouldn't come out. She had a lovely couple of hours in the A&E waiting room at the children's hospital watching despicable me and doing some colouring in, then the doctor got it out by telling her exactly the same thing to do that I had tried. DD then refused to put it in the bin and said the teacher would want it back.

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BlackeyedGruesome · 26/02/2019 01:19

A pea, pieces of tissue and an apple pip have all been up noses here.

Graphista · 26/02/2019 02:33

Dd aged 4 stuck a barbie shoe up her nose. Gp got it out easy enough.

It was the call I got from nursery when she'd decided to put her head through the bars of one of those short solid fences by road crossings? They'd done a trip to school as a visit prior to starting the following Autumn. Fire brigade had to cut through a bar and sort of bend it she wasn't phased thought it hilarious little bugger.

BreakfastAtLitanies · 26/02/2019 03:05

@FairyMoppings I thought I might have been your sister when I read the bath sponge bit Grin but I panicked and got taken to A&E to have it removed. Very far up, apparently, they were impressed Blush

FairyMoppings · 26/02/2019 14:48

BreakfastAtLitanies haha, i thought my DSIS was the only daft one in the world to have done something so daft as to stuff bath sponge up her conk! Grin

pelirocco123 · 26/02/2019 15:00

On of my sons sniffed a lump of tissue up his nose , I was working so DH took him to A&E , his older brother and sister kept telling him that they would have to chop his head off to get it

He swallowed a 2p coin another time

Tbh the list of why mine kept A&E busy is endless , I think they even had a seat in our name

dustarr73 · 26/02/2019 15:51

My 4 year old stuck a 5 cent coin up his nose.God knows how he managed to get it up there.
It got stuck,brought him to A & e.They couldnt get it out,brought him across to the eye and ear department.Called out the eye and ear nurse,she got it out.

We where there hours.But we where there and about 5 kids come in with things stuck in other orifaces.Nurse says its allways like that.If 1 come in about 10 follow soon after.

BlingLoving · 26/02/2019 15:58

If 1 come in about 10 follow soon after.

I think this must be true. We took DS to A&E a while ago because he'd cut his eye and needed it glued. Two other small children were in with the exact same problem. The nurse laughed and said at least DS didn't scream the place down while he was being fixed up like the others did (they were significantly younger).

KeptTheBeachesShipwreckFree · 26/02/2019 16:00

One sibling swallowed a balloon when sucking the air out of it. They had to go to hospital but I don't know whether it was removed or allowed to pass naturally.

My eldest shoved a chocolate rice ball up their nose once. Dh managed to get it out by somehow massaging the nostril.

How on earth do you manage to fit a butternut squash up your arse?!

Toddlerteaplease · 26/02/2019 16:16

@PlainVanilla it is a perfectly justified reason to go to A&E. They have the equipment to get it out without doing damage. Some kids have to have it removed under anaesthetic,

Toddlerteaplease · 26/02/2019 16:17

We had a 10 year old who somehow swallowed a fairy pendant. It looked very pretty on the X Ray!

Natsku · 26/02/2019 19:01

I had to take DD to A&E after she swallowed a coin (after paramedics came and checked her out and said she'll be fine but actually she was not fine and it was stuck in her throat and had to be removed under GA), she was a toddler so perfectly normal and reasonable for her to do a thing like but what was not reasonable was that I, with the wisdom of my years, thought it was a good idea to give her a couple of coins to play with while I changed her nappy... all my bloody fault

Silab · 26/02/2019 21:10

Ds stuck a berry up his nose. Didn't tell anyone. Found it when it started to smell....
After gp, a&e and ent trying and failing to remove it he ended up having to get it removed under General anaesthetic......

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