ddhr.org - Up your nose

Babyzone, a website I frequent (kidding!), published a list of 10 things kids stick up their noses most often. Not necessarily in order of frequency:

Crayons
Beads
French Fries
Fingers
Marbles
Spaghetti
Tissue
Cheerios
Small Toys
Beans and Peas

A few of these are pretty personal for me, including beads and marbles. I would even add a new one to the list: M&Ms. But spaghetti? That's new. I guess if the shoe fits, wear it. Or more appropriately, if the object fits in your nose, put it up there. You only live once, right?

Common extraction techniques include holding the clear nostril while blowing through the clogged one. In extreme cases, you can use some sort of suction device or go to an ear, nose, and throat doctor. The article recommends to talk to your little one and reassure them that everything will be ok. But nothing can calm that overwhelming fear that comes over you after you fail to get the object out on the first try and think, "I was just seeing if it would fit. Now I have to live the rest of my life with a foreign object lodged in my nostril." #health

Comments

Dana

Jul 9, 2008

John has stuck #'s 4, 7, 8, and 9 up there . . . but he also stuck "ground beef" up his nose, so that should be added to the list. That one was actually quite funny since it was spicy and so it caught his attention. Something we learned - if a Cheerio gets stuck up there and you don't think it came out when you tried the put-your-mouth-over-their-mouth-and-blow technique (makes a weird noise, but it works!), you don't have to worry about it. It will eventually dissolve . . . The things you learn as a parent!

Dave

Jul 10, 2008

Foreign objects lodged in nasal passages for an extended amount of time can cause infection. Thankfully it was a Cheerio, which is devoid of any type of nutrition or taste.

I didn't realize you could do mouth-to-mouth on a person to get something out of their nose. Very interesting.

Wendy

I don't think we should exclude adults here. The M&M incident occurred after Dave lost a bet with me...about a year or two ago. It did sort of get stuck, but after some forceful blows the M&M flew out.

Don't ask me why I thought of this as the loser's form of payment.