Waiting for a taxi to get dd to A&E

[WigWamBam]

Because she has pushed a pea up her nose. In fact, she pushed 2 peas up her nose and I can only get one out.

She says they "fell upwards".

This is going to seem funny later on, isn't it.

It's fine now; she was as right as ninepence as soon as the nurse had finished, and we got the bus straight from the hospital to nursery, where she's been telling them all about her exploits.

Although when I got home I realised I'd left the French windows open and anyone could have got in ... don't tell dh

Glad all is ok with Mini-WWB and Mummy WWB

No won't tell Daddy WWB about the windows

Glad it all turned out ok wwb

A friend's DD went through this recently, with bread or something. The A+E people got her to block the other nostril, and blow in through her DD's mouth. Unfortunately, because the bread let the air through, it didn't work. Still, something I'd try if I was in this situation ...

That's worth noting just in case she tries it again, NQC. Touch wood she won't, but you never know!

Oh, she should have learned. I remember my sister doing this with sweetcorn when she was little ... she sat at the dinner table, saying "hmm, it's gone". "what's gone?" "the corn I put up my nose".

We spent an evening in the Canadian equivalent of Great Ormond Street. Only of course the corn had (we think) gone down into her stomach.

She's never lived it down, and she's never done it since.

my dd put dried raisin up her nose a few months ago .By the time nurse pulled it out it had rehydrated and was HUGE!!! glad your dd is fine now

oh dear.

For future reference:

I watched one of those daytime TV hospital programmes a few years ago - the one with Gaby Roslin - and an A&E doctor at the hospital in question had come up with a really good, non-invasive method of getting stuff out of kids' noses. Basically, you hold the nostril that isn't blocked closed, cover their mouth with yours, and blow. The A&E doctor had had loads of success with it - the Mum does it (obviously!) so the child doesn't wig out as much, and it doesn't involved forceps and tweezers and the like.

I tried it when ds1 shoved a chunk of pasta spiral (cooked) up his nose - I had to have a few goes but it pushed it far enough down for us to grab it and get it out. Definitely worth a try next time any of our nutty kids shove things up their noses!

And I've just noticed that NQC posted the same thing