When items are prodded up noses...........

[Levanna]

......where do they go? How far can they go? Is immediate retrieval always necessary?

I only ask as DD2 spent a couple of hours prodding finger up nose and becoming quite agitated in the process. Despite looking, there was nothing to be seen ao I assumed her nose was a little sore from a fall she had earlier, hence the agitation upon prodding.

Went to check her in her cot earlier and saw a bit of baby wipe poking out of a nostril, on further excavation, it turned out to be a pea sized wad of baby wipe which had gone right up into the cavity

It came out with ease, no harm done (in fact, she didn't even wake up!).

But if it hadn't...... where would it have gone?

I know they generally come out again though. My niece once spent the day asking her mum for 'aisins' (or so my sister thought) and my sister spent the day explaining that sorry, she didn't have any left.

Niece was extremely persistent. A gargantuan sneeze nearing bedtime, culminating in a raisin catapulting from her nose, gave some explanation as to my niece's word of the day.

Oh, and why do they do it?!?!

I stuck a button up mine when I was little!

Things up noses either come back out the nose, go down the throat and get swallowed and digested, or end up in the lungs. I think the lungs is the least likely result, but it can be a bit dangerous. (I am basing this on what we were told when my sister put a kernel of sweetcorn up her nose, years ago. Maybe they were wrong?)

A friend's DD4 went through a big putting-things-up-nose phase. I think they do it because they can.

Digesticble stuff tends to either come back out or get swallowed. Non diegestible stuff can get stuck and need winkled out - if a kid ever has revolting discharge coming from one nostril chances are there's something up it!!!

lol @ 'because they can' bless 'em!

So, watch out for discharge but otherwise item's probably dissapeared. I wonder how likely it is for something sizeable to reach the lungs?

I don't remember DD1 ever doing this (but she's only 3, there's still time!) or maybe I was never aware of it.