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 😬

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Blimey @steppemum, that sounds horrendous, how terrifying. What sort of surgery did she have to have?

face - yes it was, horrendous and terrifying. Sadly not all swallowing incidents are harmless.
Her throat shrank as it healed, forming scar tissue, so she was only able to swallow liquids, no solid food at all. It was about 4 inches down past the 'back of the throat' if you see what I mean. She had to have it stretched. General anaesthetic, and then they stretch the scarred tissue. It opens up to normal size. The plan is that is open up and then shrinks back abotu half and then you do it again, after 2-3 goes it shoudl be fine.
With dd though, every single time it shrank right back doen to 1mm. After 12 goes, the surgeon sat me down and started to talk about more serious intervention and putting in a stent etc.
I got everyone at church to pray, and the 13 time she had the op it opened and stayed fully open.

She had a few issues occasionally (she would get lumps of food stuck and then throw up) up until she was about 7 or 8, and since then nothing. She is now fine. No lasting effects at all.

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Gosh, that's awful. Glad she's made a full recovery.

"A little button battery - spent the night in hospital then it came out the other end"

This one is the scariest of the lot. I am amazed they waited to pass it. I saw a horrible video a surgeon made of the damage these batteries can do burning through the tissue. A one-year-old had to have part of her oesophagus removed and is currently fed through a stomach peg

confused The scary thing for us is we didn't know dd had swallowed one until she passed it. I know now how dangerous they are.