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Youngest FlyingOx (6yo) has managed to get a marble stuck up his nose. From the looks of things it's well inside his nasal cavity now. Minor injuries dept at the local hospital have looked and decided it's too deep for them to get at and referred him to an ENT - timescale for contact: some time this coming week.
I'm no doctor but surely something like this is at risk of dropping down into the windpipe at any time, especially when he goes to sleep. I'm not sure "within the next 5 working days" really conveys any sense of urgency. Plus I'm kinda not 100% confident in the Minor Injuries dept after they sent my other kid home with sepsis last year telling us it was a broken collarbone.
Any suggestions on what we should do with the boy? Am I worrying unneccessarily? Also, I'm 3000 miles away from all this at the moment so not actually able to do much anyway.
I don't know for definite as it's not my area of specialty, but I'd only be happy with someone saying that if it came direct from an experienced ENT specialist.
Edit I've just checked to see if there are any protocols, and yes it should have been discussed with an ENT specialist.
Does sound a bit worrying if it's the other side of the hole tbh, but IANAD. 🤞🤞🤞
The worst my youngest managed when she was little was scampi flavoured niknak stuck up there for a good while before we knew. God that stank when I came out 🤣
I have the other issue, sometimes when I'm eating food goes up the back of my nose. Lots of honking and blowing and sometimes it comes back down to my mouth, other times, most noticeably a chunk of quarter pounder with cheese, it comes out my snotter 🤣
Brother got a chestnut stuck up his nose on holiday once. Long forceps sorted it.
No2 son managed similarly with a grape. He eventually expelled it by blowing VERY hard whilst holding other nostril shut.
Kids are just so useless.
Anyway OP, if it was my kid and I felt uncomfortable about the offered treatment I'd go to another MIU.
My wife tried the "mother's kiss" thing but as it's rattling about in the cavity and not just plugging the nostril it didn't come out. She's taken him to the nearest A&E now so hopefully will get sorted there 🤞🏼
Disappointed that this isn't a "coke and hookers" thread BTW.
Your wife has done the correct thing IME.
Cricket bat to the back of the head.
*IANAD
When he was around 2 my youngest decided to swallow the metal ball from mousetrap.
Took him to hospital who checked its position , and once satisfied it wasn’t in the wrong place , just said to wait and let it pass.
I was squishing his output by hand for the next 2 weeks before exit was confirmed.
Didn’t half take the shine off the ball too.
And the game , couldn’t face playing it after that 😂
Turns out it was a ball bearing and it came out with a telescopic neodymium magnet
home effort or at A&E?
I would not recommend putting magnets up your nose unless qualified
I got a dried pea stuck up my nose at school when I was very young, it’s still a vivid memory, I poked it out myself and now I’m 63! Sorry if that’s flippant but if you’ve got time to post on here you’re not really worried!
Total Recall, anyone?
Sorry if that’s flippant but if you’ve got time to post on here you’re not really worried!
What should he be doing then when he's 3000 miles away, other than ask the fount of all knowledge?
Do you have a compressor or an AirShot, in the garage ?
Can you insert the nozzle in the other nostril or get the little 'un to purse their lips tightly around the air gun, then pull the trigger * ?
IANOD.
Engineers. Solving the world's problems, one problem at a time 😎
* absolutely do not try this at home. Or on the local petrol station forecourt. Or anywhere else.
Don't forget fingers in ears as well with an air shot ! LOL.
Cut a pencil straight, carve a concave into it of the same radius as the marble. Cover in super glue then stick up nose, hold still until it sets. Then pull out.
I've used something like this technique on similar items but not in a cavity of a human body.
I poked it out myself and now I’m 63!
Wow, that’s an amazing transformation. What type of pea made you age so quickly?
Who got it out? EM or ENT?
Neither. A&E couldn't get it so they gave him some strong painkillers and sent him home, where his uncle was waiting... 😬
My little sister, when aged about two or three, stuck a peanut up her nose without anyone noticing. Some time much, much later it got manky enough to start off an epic sinus infection, it smelled like something had died up there. Kids are useless!
Neither. A&E couldn’t get it so they gave him some strong painkillers and sent him home, where his uncle was waiting
Is he an engineer? 😆
Youngest_oab spent three days with a double break of his upper arm at age 8. At the end of day 3, after three 100 mile round trips to our nearest hospital, as the consultant was trying to send them home until the morning of day 4, mrs_oab "had a word or three"*. He was operated on as an emergency within a couple of hours.
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*you don't want to be on the recieving end of an upset mother, particularly after three days of stress and no sleep.
I fished a Hama bead out from deep in Son1 on the kitchen table. He'd been to A&E a few times, and wasn't keen on another visit, so it was lie still with the head torch and tweezers or another trip. You insert the tweezers into the hole in the bead, don't try and grab the thing hole. Comes out fine.
That's either some ball bearing, or you have small marbles. Glad it came out OK. I'd have been trying the same with the collection of magnets for bike computers, stored on the fridge door.
Total Recall, anyone?
I work in ED, we would refer to ENT if it was outside our range of equipment/ability, but it would generally be to the emergency clinic and generally doesn’t need to be done immediately.
Total Recall, anyone?
Get yo ass to Mars.
Just wait until they grow up and find other places to stick things!
Link might be NSW