any tips to get raisin out of friends DC's nose?

[greyriver]

'i pushed it up very well mummy'

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Tia x

ds did this this week with a hama bead...

Re-arrange your whole day (the day you are going to spend getting organised to go away over night to a luxurious spa alone courtesy of your DH). Take to hosp - wait for what seems like hours. Finally get to see doc. Just after you have explained what happened DC sneezes and out pops raisin.

Exactly what happened to a friend of mine!

Well good news he is raisin free lol, he managed to (for want of a better word) 'snot' it out after 1.5 hours of blowing through it with the other nostril closed (thanks soupdragon)

i'm sure there was a very recent thread about this, where a&e held good nostril shut and blew sharply into child's mouth? ds did a bit of sweetcorn but luckily not too far. my sister shoved a flouride tablet up, that was there for aeons.

oh hooray i am pleased it is out.

A friends daughter put a bead up her nose and A&E got it out as fishie described (hold good nostril shut & blow into child's mouth). A few months later my daughter pushed silver foil up her nose, my friend told me what A&E had done - I tried it on my daughter and it worked a treat, it saved me a trip to A&E.

OMG My brother did this in nursery school. They'd baked rock buns and he was terrified he may be forced to eat raisons so he stuck them in his nose and ears. He went to hospital.

A friends son was found to have had a crayon in his ear for six months the other day.

Sorry no practical advice.

Did anyone hear a piece on Woman's Hour a few weeks ago about the 'mother's kiss' method of getting rid of something lodged in a child's nose? It was a simple technique and now I can't remember it.

We retrieved a pom-pom (from one of DD's craft kits) from DS's nose this week. He had been unwell on Tuesday night and been sick. We dont know if he had eaten it and the being sick had lodged it up his nose, or, if it was already there, and the resulting excess mucuous made him vomit and some vomit also got stuck behind it. Anyway, he had a high temp, and was v unwell all week and his breath smelt AWFUL.

Upshot was, I looked up - saw something. DP looked when he got home and saw nothing. Looked again the next day and saw it again. We held DS down whilst DP fished it out with tweezers.

It smelled like something had died up there [vomit].

The smell disappeared after a few hours. Clearly it had been there Quite Some Time....

The "mothers kiss" is the one where you close one nostril and then make sharp breath into the mouth and the item should shoot out. I heard it mentioned on world service and a few days later ds stuck rice up his nose. It was amazing and worked immediately.

you could suck it out, by placing your mouth over his nose and closing his mouth and suck really hard. downside is you will prob get snot aswell

Thanks Ladypenelope, it was bugging me that I couldn't remember it and anything that saves a trip to A+E has got to be worth knowing.

dd stuck a raison up her nose when she was four. We were sent to see the ENT specialist from A&E. Initially they got me to close her free nostril and do the 'mother's kiss' but this didn't budge it at all. They ended up suctioning it out with a little tool. Needless to say, it came out nicely plump and juicy!

My advice would be to alwyas go to A&E to avoid futher damage.
Incidently, my brother stuck his pencil in his ear at a similar age and when he pulled it out, he was minus the little rubber at the end of it! My mum made a similar trip to the ENT surgeon with him!!