Help my son has swallowed a plum stone he is 4

[cultkid]

What do I do

You are over reacting . I swallowed one by accident a while ago and nothing happened, slippery little blighters those stones.

Can he breathe

You'd have to hope so given that the OP is posting on MN

The cyanide in stone fruits is in the kernel: inside the stone. He would have had to crack it open with his teeth to ingest it.

YinMnBlue
Also a good point.

I remember swallowing so many fruit stones when I was younger and I was fine 😂😂

Why would you search his poo???

There's not enough cyanide in a typical plum stone to make him even mildly unwell. Unless it was one of quite exotic bitter almond varieties, there's no need to worry on that account.
My DS did the same around the same age, and was fine. The stomach acid actually polishes off the edges of the stone quite significantly (yes, I sifted the poo!), so the elimination process is not that bad.
I remember the incident now only because we were reading about Johnny Appleseed roughly at the same time, and fertilizing our own apple tree with horse manure. So DS had the usual mix-and-match of facts in his head, resulting in him cheerily telling his nursery group that there was a man once who ate apples and defecated apple seeds all over America to grow trees.

Might be an old wives tale, but give him lots of bread to eat to cushion it on the way through

No. That’s unnecessary and silly. There is no problem, no need to cushion anything, no need to sift through poo and no need to call any info line.

If he is not choking on the seed, which he is not, then move on. He won’t get a stomach ache or anything else, he will just shit it out at some point, in his poo, in the toilet where it shouldn’t be noticed and is happily flushed away.

resulting in him cheerily telling his nursery group that there was a man once who ate apples and defecated apple seeds all over America to grow trees

Brilliant

Don't give him lots of bread, it won't cushion anything but may make him constipated which is what you don't want.

A plum pit contains around 9mg of cyanide, you need 200-300mg orally to get a fatal dose so unless he has eaten 20+ plum pits in one sitting you really don't need to worry about cyanide poisoning.

It'll pass in a day or two, no need to check his poo.

If he complains about tummy pain, has blood in his stool, starts vomiting, grows leaves etc, then speak to a doctor.

My brother swallowed a ball bearing. Massive clunk when he got rid of it but nothing really to worry about if it's already past his throat.

Jesus, massive overreaction. You don't have to do anything, call anyone or certainly not sift through anything?

If he doesn't go today or by the morning definitely call 111 because I'd won't digest and can block his insides.

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If you really need a plum stone, I suggest getting another plum rather than sifting through his poo.

f he doesn't go today or by the morning definitely call 111 because I'd won't digest and can block his insides
I’m sorry but this is absolute nonsense. It won’t digest but of course it won’t block his insides. Christ

And if by some very small chance it did block his insides, OP would know about it as he would have symptoms such as pain, cramping, vomiting, abdominal swelling/bloating. If he doesn't have any of those symptoms then there is no need to call 111.

If he doesn't go today or by the morning definitely call 111 because I'd won't digest and can block his insides
This won’t happen. Kids often swallow stuff they shouldn’t. It won’t do him any harm

Tip him upside down and shake him.

( you may be able to tell that I haven't got any children)

I did the same at his age, my mother spent the next week looking in my mouth to see if a tree was growing (it didn't) remember it vividly but never swallowed another one!

Why you should do is forget about it and get on with your life.

When my DD was 2 she swallowed a 2p. We called 111 and they told us to take her to A&E. They used an airport style handheld metal detector to check that it was in her stomach and not stuck. They said to forget about it, no need to search her poo, it'll pass in time. They said a human digestive system can usually pass things up to 4cm across without issue.

you may be able to tell that I haven't got any children
Who Would’ve Thought That?

Don’t worry, it will come out the natural way and he’ll be fine.

He will poop it out, nothing to worry about x

DD2 (our Houdini child) twisted herself out of the high chair harness climbed out into the table , the tray was pulled over the table top. The fruit bowl was on the table and she loved plums. Lovely ripe squishy plums.

I turned round from cooking to see her sitting on the table and she handed me the the empty plum skin. So many parenting fails in one event. She was 18 months. This had taken place in complete silence as I cooked the dinner and secured her in her high chair with safe toys.

Her godmother is a Health Visitor so I phoned in her in a panic. She gave me a a fantastic Scottish reply "if it disnae stuck in yer throat, it'll no stick in yer erse".