To ask what things your children have eaten that they shouldn't of that's ended up with an a&e trip

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Was talking about this with some friends yesterday and curious to know what have people experienced with their children?

My daughter when she was 3 bit into a laundry liquid tablet 🙈 was the scariest thing and I was a panicked mess!

She also sprayed bathroom bleach in her eye when we visited my mum which was equally as horrific!

Funnily enough though my other 3 have never done anything like this, or stuck anything up there nose. Unlike me at 6 years old getting a diamanté stuck my nostril and spending a night in hospital because they was struggling to retrieve it 😬

We are in hospital at the moment with DD and the girl next door swallows 9 batteries !!
She has passed 4 so far !

Almost A+E DS who was a toddler had inserted a wax crayon in our black standard poodle. All the way in.
The Vet gave us some funny looks.
(Crayola chunky too, poor ddog)

Path de-icer granuals. I think DD was 5.
Tool a couple of hours but between my memory and the poisons unit we eventually established they were just salt.

@TheQueef inserted it where?!?! Or should I not have to ask. I just really want you to say mouth. Please say mouth!

It wasn't mouth Pigeon

Ds1 swallowed a paper clip, when he was about 11. He was throwing it in the air and trying to catch it apparently. Trip to a and e..

Ds2 was scarier, I was changing him he was about 4 months and saw him chewing something, I stuck my finger in his mouth to get it out, and discovered a live wasp. Luckily it didn’t sting him....or me! I spoke to a paediatric nurse a while later and asked what I could have done and chillingly she said I would probably have watched him die if he had been stung in the throat, I was a minimum of 30 minutes from help in the wilds of Cumbria. Sobering.

I had my stomach pumped for eating toadstools in the garden circa 1973.

@TheQueef 😵 there's a story for the 18th birthday party....

@mermaidbutmytailfelloff that's absolutely terrifying.

I wondered if I should have taken DD in after eating silicone ear plugs, but to be fair she's eaten quite a lot now and seems to enjoy them.

A nectarine. He knew he can’t eat tree fruit (genuine allergy) but dm forgot that nectarines grow on trees. He’s also been admitted after eating apples, pears and cherries.

Mine was two, we were in the garden while I was hanging out the washing. Turned my back for a couple of seconds and she came over with some berries in her hand. I had no idea what they were, as we’d just moved in. She proudly announced ‘ate 5’....and straight to A&E with her and the remaining berries. Thankfully they weren’t posionious, and I dug up anything that had unknown berries and learnt what all the other plants were!

We’ve been in for peas up the nose.

My now 4 year old sucked a brand new bottle of roll on deodorant empty. Nurse asks "why was it in her reach?" Well even for a 3 year old you would have thought a bottle of deodorant is gross.

This morning her 2 yesr old brother sprayed a bit of body spray into her mouth. Clearky my child just likes deodorant.

A Persia tab that ds’s student half-sister dumped on the floor when she came home from college one summer.

Persil

2 of the tiniest lithium batteries you can imagine from a cat laser toy. I wasn’t even sure she had swallowed them at first, I just saw the laser had broken and couldn’t find the battery anywhere and took her as a precaution to A & E. I was horrified when they took an X-ray and there were not one but two batteries showing quite clearly.

She was sent to another hospital immediately and prepped for surgery in case they needed to go in and retrieve them urgently, they monitored her via X-ray to see if they were moving along. If they hadn’t moved between one X-ray and the next they were going in. This was on 23rd Dec. OH and I were up for 24 straight hours and it was a terrifying experience. Luckily they came out the other end the next day and we were home just in time for Xmas with no harm done. She was very lucky. I held it together the whole time at the hospital, but as soon as we got home and she went to bed I cried all night. My eyes look wonderful in our Christmas pics 😂 She’s my 4th child and I’ve never experienced anything on that scale that before and hope I never will again!

The morning of my dads wedding my son (then 18months) decided to drink some of DH aftershave! Was so stressful as I was bridesmaid, PIL took DS to a and e where he was given an inhaler and we popped back to see him between the ceremony and the meal but he ended up missing the whole
Day/night.

Does anyone remember Fireball sweets? (Maybe Fireblast?) They were like little balls of hot cinnamon or something. My brother stuck three up my nose when I was 5. Mum couldn't get them out and they burnt my nose and made it bleed! The doctors at the hospital gave my brother a massive telling off

DS1 swalled a magnetic ball when nursery allowed him to play with a load of tiny magnetic toys, aged 3! He told me hours later in a panic and we had no idea how many he'd swallowed. Could have been lethal, thankfully it was just the one and it made its own way out. Nursery were extremely apologetic and got rid of the toys immediately - they were in a blind panic as they knew how stupid they'd been.

Rinse aid for the dishwasher.

DC2 had oral issues. She was three before she would put food in her mouth let alone anything else. At 2 years she ate an entire bag of plaster of paris :-0 a+e and stomach pumped. Every milk feed from birth to 2.5 she threw at least a third back up. But with the plaster of paris she was utterly fine. Her SALT therapist couldn't believe it!!
(Shes now a healthy happy 9 year old with no long term issues thank goodness)

When DS2 was a toddler he managed to get hold of a bottle of peppermint foot spray and sprayed it everywhere. I asked him what he did with it and he pointed to his mouth.
So I looked on the bottle's label and it said in cases of ingestion seek medical advice urgently. I thought that it couldn't be too harmful as it's only peppermint...... Nope, I was informed by NHS Direct that peppermint oil is toxic, so they had to get onto the national poisons control centre to seek advice. Thankfully he only got a small amount in his mouth and they sent a paramedic out to check him over. He was absolutely fine.

Dd1 (now 16) when 4, swallowed a screw on mobile phone ariel. Luckily she passed it. Ds2 was 2 1/2 when he ate half a tub of Vicks. Monitored overnight but fine. 2 years later ds2 managed to get the child proof cap off the calpol and drank about a quarter of a bottle. Overnight monitoring again. I have entirely grey hair at 37.

@Bugsymalonemumof2 this is what the hv said to me and it really isn't helpful. I'm extremely careful now and am always packing things away out of her reach, but unfortunately unless your walking behind them 24/7 things are going to happen 🤷🏻‍♀️ she's 4 now and has a bit more sense so it's not her I have to worry about so much, it's her 2 year old sister 😬

My DD swallowed the stone from a peach when she was about 15 months old. Spoke to the hotel doctor as we were on holiday who told us not to worry it would come out the other end and just to check her nappies