5yr old has a one sided runny nose for over 2 months!

[Bunny888]

Hi, just like to see anyone had the same experience as me and give me some advice?

My daughter who will be 5 yrs old next month have had a runny nose for over two months now. It is only her left nostril that runs. It all started at the beginning of June. At first I thought it was just a normal colds. She did had a fever couple of weeks after it started but the fever lasted one day and it was gone after couple of dose of Nurofen. Didn't think of anything else until I noticed she was constantly sniffing her nose.
She has no other symptoms apart from her left nostril being runny. The discharge is thick and yellowish and green. And often too she had nose bleeds from it. Her general health are good and it doesn't seem to bother her. But it has been going on for too long to be a cold.

So I took her to the GP last week. On the day of the appointment she had a nose bleed again. She doesn't know how to blow her nose so the GP couldn't look up her nose to see if there's anything stuck up there.

He prescribed her some saline nose drops and Naseptin Nasal cream and told me to go back in two weeks.

Since I have applied the cream to her nose, she stopped sniffing which she was doing all the time before any treatment. Her inside of the nose looks less raw and so far no nose bleeds. However, almost everyday she had a huge blob of sticky snot from her nostril that I had pulled out. There are days it was clear and the other nostrils some days seemed to run too.

I am thinking to take her back later this week after the 10 days treatment suggested by the instruction on the nasal cream rather than waiting the two weeks per GP.

I don't know what to think of this, what do you think it could be? An infection? Allergy or something stuck in her nose? Anyone had use Naseptin before? How do I know if its working?

Sorry for the long post.
Thanks

Amateur here but sounds like there's something stuck up there.

My first thought was that something might be stuck in there, too.

Thanks for your reply. That's my gut feeling too. So what would happen if there is something stuck in her nose, do she need to go to hospital to get it out?

She did have some sneeze before the treatment, would the force of the sneeze push out the foreign body from her nose? This is what is puzzling me all the time and couldn't be sure what is the cause of this.

I agree it sounds as if something is stuck up there. My DD when 2 got something stuck up her nose and had similar symptoms, she had it removed at the hospital with a pair of long tweezers, however they where planning on removing it under GA as it was so far up, but just got lucky on the day I guess. One thing they got us to try beforehand was, lie DC down, put finger over unblocked nostril then blow hard in mouth (almost as if you're giving mouth to mouth). If the object isn't stuck way up there it should shoot right out.

I will try to get an appointment with GP tomorrow and talk to him again. How did your doctor be certain that there was something stuck in the nose? Did he look up inside the nose with special equipment?

GP looked up her nose but couldn't see anything at all and just recommended a saline spray, I was certain I had seen something green a while back, but as nobody else could see it I started to doubt it.

Anyway DD had her afternoon nap, so DH took the opportunity to spray saline up nose. It went up one side but ran straight out of other, he got a small torch and shone it up and he also saw the green blockage. We phoned GP who recommended we took her to our out of hours walk in.

The nurses couldn't see anything either even with a small camera and tried to dismiss us, so we went to the a&e at the next hospital and the dr saw it straight away. I guess it kept moving with her breathing so wasn't always visible.

Sorry about the long post. Hope you get it sorted.

Einstein aren’t you going to tell us what it was?

It was a chunk of green sponge.

We had a frog bath sponge and DD had taken a chunk out of it. Actually she shredded it, so I threw it out.........around 5 months prior to discovering it was up her nose!

She had same symptoms as OP describes, however it started to make her breath really stink for 2-3 weeks before we discovered it.

Thanks, I did tried looking up her nose with a torch apart from it was crusty and I couldn’t see anything else. Now I am thinking should I just pop down to A&E.

Can we start a sweepstake as to what's up there? Hama bead, piece of lego, a pea?

Something is definitely irritating it! I’m going with sweet corn.

Another whose first thought was something stuck up there. A friend of mine had similar with her DS (constantly runny nose on one side), and it turned out to be a hairball up there!

I reckon a little bead. Kids seem to enjoy putting them in ears, up noses etc.

Thanks for everyone’s Messages, we’ve been to the doctors yesterday and GP couldn’t see anything in her nose. She said both sides looked crusty and prescribed her oral antibiotics as she think the cream isn’t reaching the infection. Will give that a go and if by Tuesday still no improvement then I’ll be taking daughter to A&E.
After two doses of antibiotics her both nostrils had ran and it is clear mucus. This morning looks dry so fingers crossed it is just an infection after all.

@Bunny888 appreciate this is old but what was the outcome? Got the same issue here…