Could my 2 yo have managed to get sweetcorn stuck in his nasal cavity?

[pastalady]

My 2 year old recently decided to experiment with putting sweetcorn up his nose. It was taken off the menu for a while, especially as he managed to get two peices up one of his nostrils which was scary. He did it with peas the other day too, but luckily had a sneezing fit soon after and the peas 'fired out' of his nose. I left it about a month but STUPIDLY gave him sweetcorn yesterday. He was as good as gold with it, then I left the room for 10 seconds to grab a drink, came back and there he was, eye's watering, fingers up his nose! I checked his nostrils and they both looked clear but ever since he is fiddling with his nose allot and has started talking all nasaly, like he has a blocked up nose, yet he doesn't have much of a snotty nose.

So, the big question is - could he have somehow managed to push the sweetcorn up into his nasal cavity or am I just being daft. If he did, what's the treatment? Will it work its way out or stay there? I don't want to turn up at the doctors and be laughed at but I don't want my son to have rotting sweetcorn in his nasal cavity.

Advise please!!!

Hurray! Back from the docs and all is well. She couldn't see anything up his nose and said not to worry because small peices of naturally occuring substances like sweetcorn can be broken dpwn quite easily by the body and it's un-natural thing like plastic beads etc that are dangerous, of course, as they cant be broken down and it's the bodies continued attempts to do so that cause the infection. She said he may sound stuffy for a week or so but not too worry. She even told me to let him try it again to help him learn that putting things up your nose is bad so he wont do it with a pebble or something in the future. Still, off the menu for a while in my view!

Thanks for all your advice. Feel really reassured now and also grateful that I now know that it is possible for toddlers to get things stuck in the nose, yet so high up that they are out of view.

Thanks once again x x x x

Also, thanks for telling me about that mouth blowing/nose clearing technique. That's a useful thing to know.

Just for future reference, when dd stuck a raison up her nose, I brought her to A & E. They got me to try the mouth blowing trick but this didn't budge it at all. The ENT consultant then removed it with a tiny vacuum type intsrument which didn't hurt at all and it was out in no time.

The dried raison came out nicely plump and juicy I might add!!