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

[gentlyscented]

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 😬

DS was18 months old when he managed to ninja his way up to the shower storage shelf whilst I was looking out the window (doing a poo). He nibbled the gel strip away from around a lady shave. I realised when he started foaming at the mouth.

111 and I managed between us to work out from the ingredients list there was nothing deadly in the gel bar- we were more impressed that he has managed the feat without cutting his mouth to shit.

I got an apostrophe wrong and no one died @NigelGresley

A cockroach. Live.

Narrowly avoided a visit when DS1 complained that he couldn’t hear (aged 3)...he had pulled a non-slip but off the bottom of his slipper sock and rammed it on his ear...where it had fossilised to the point where he couldn’t hear. DH has a very steady hand and we got it out with long tweezers.

I recently took my 6yo DS to the hospital to have an apple pip removed from his ear. Apparently someone at school told him to put it in his ear, so he did.

My middle DS happily munched on dishwasher powder, leading to an A&E visit. However, the ‘poisons’ people at the hospital were satisfied he would be fine. The nurse happily and loudly announced this as she handed me the packet back in a crowded waiting room. I was judged.

The eldest ate Vicks Vaporub
The youngest had to get a pea, a bit of paper, and a piece of foam removed from his nose

Half a bottle of medised

Oh god I’ll never forget the panic the time
I found an empty bottle of medised with no lid rolling around on the floor of the kitchen. Thankfully I was able to get hold of my husband who confirmed it was empty and he must just have dropped it.

@Lobsterquadrille2 🤭

A lot of kids are loving the vapour rub 🤢

@gentlyscented she was born in Bermuda. They were rife. I was terrified!! 😏

My son ate a cistern block, a washing pod, a whole bottle of pancreatic enzymes and a strip of anti inflammatory tablets. A&e were always very kind and didn't seem to judge, he was the type of kid that would also climb to the top of trees or dash into main roads as a toddler if you took your eyes off him for a second. He's a teenager now and is quite safe and cautious.

Dd aged 2, in a tropical garden glasshouse. ‘Mummy yucky grapes’ . Yep she’d eaten some rare berry she’d snatched whilst she was being pushed past. Asked for advice at the info point and we had to take a photo of the plant and go to a&e. Man in said glasshouse said ‘this has never happened before’ which was comforting and ds (4) kept wailing ‘is dd going to DIEEEEEE’.

My son swallowed a steel ball-bearing, which I found in the loo.
I told him off for chucking it down there, thinking it could've cracked the pan, at which point he confessed to having swallowed it.
It was from a pin-ball type game and he put it in his mouth because it looked so smooth and shiny, something startled him and down it went.
The shiny coating is all pitted and discoloured.....

When I was far to old to know better we found an old car battery in a derelict airfield and I licked the battery acid for a dare and sniffed a huge lung full of something from a barrel up there, it turned out to be toxic chemical waste and the police put an urgent news bulletin out to say anyone who had gone within a certain radius of it should go to hospital immediately, that was an intestine conversation with my mum .... I was 'that' kid that would do anything for the kudos, I cringe about it now.

possibly yew berries off the path in park. He may have put a couple in his mouth and swallowed them. DH saw him bend, pick up and chuck something in his mouth. There were berries on the ground. DH was looking after DS whilst I had a pint in beer garden by park. I was mortified/annoyed/scared. DH thought I was over reacting. I am known as the H and S officer.

Apparently they have to really chew the little black seeds inside, they are the poisonous bit. Observed in A and E for several hours and poison centre contacted for info. He was fine. We go home at midnight, knackered.

I ate a 5p when I was about 6. Far too old to be doing that kind of thing, and old enough to remember feeling really embarrassed afterwards. Not sure what came over me!

I'm surprised at all the battery ones, I thought that they immediately burned your insides is that not the case? Is that only certain batteries?

Not DC but me. When I was about 10 I got some magnetic earrings and messing around with a friend put them on both my nostrils like I had them pierced. Took the earrings off and accidently inhaled them. Trip to A&E and they were stuck together up in the top of my nostrils. Parents were embarrassed when the doctor asked which nostril is theagnet stuck up and I said "both" .

Also as an adult I've had the end of my earphones stuck in my ears. I've got really narrow ear canals (apparently) and whilst exercising and sweating profusely some sort of suction must have pulled it in. Hospital didn't believe it was possible (despite it being painful) and again they struggled to see it because it was clear. But eventually they got it out.

I ended up in hospital with my middle son who is now 8 when he was 2 1/2, it wasn't because of something he had eaten but something I ate. It was just before New Year and I ate some peanuts, he toddled over to me and I gave him a kiss on his mouth and cheeks, after about 10 minutes I saw his cheeks ballooning up and we rushed him to a+e where they asked loads of questions and I just mentioned eating the peanuts this is how we found out he has a peanut allergy

Shoe polish. Dd at age 2 managed to get it spread all over her face and ate some as well. NHS direct told me to go to A and E as a precaution but she was fine.

I also drank apple shampoo (not much) when I was 8. I didn't tell my mum as she would have told me off.

I was also drunk at a Greek wedding, toddling around the tables and drinking people's champagne. I used to do this in tavernas when my mum was shopping as well as there was always a bar in the shops. The old Greek blokes thought I was cute. I reckon I was pissed between 12 and 28 months (when we moved back to England).

Half a packet of contraceptive pills. My sister had given them to DBro who was 18 months as they rattled when he shook them

@Proudandlovable0201 I wonder if we’re in the same hospital?? Dd is in here now and a little 2 year old girl here has swallowed 8 batteries, yet only managed to poop out 7.....

DS def swallowed a milk tooth. Her and dh were mucking about and he accidentally knocked it out (was obv loose) and she swallowed it. I’m sure it came out whole the other end.
When I was a kid I stuck plasticine up my nose! I must’ve been 3 or 4, was one of my earliest memories. It must have come out as dont remember going to hospital.

Cjpark 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh Nigel chill pill 🙄