You put what??!!!! were???!!

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:) What is it with children and things being put were they shouldn't go????. In triage recently I had a steady stream of children all cute as cupcakes and all guilty of the above. My haul included:

1 pink glittery barbie bead in an ear canal.

1 dishwasher tablet swallowed.

3 fingers superglued together. (on the same child!!)

1 coin swallowed.

1 small piece of blue lego in the nasal passage

1 hand fully trapped in the back of a toy cement mixer. (took some soap to get that little devil off!!!!.

Now the ultimate kick in the teeth is that mine own children were no better and my son had proudly managed to insert 3 frozen pees in his ear and 1 complete twiglet up his nose by the age of three!!! Thankfully neither required a hospital visit.

So that's my haul but would love to here other's :)

Specializes in CCRN, ICU, ER, MS, WCC, PICC RN.

When my oldest daughter was 2, she had a bad habit of pulling the foam out of the padding on the sides of her playpen. Well, she developed a nasty-smelling nasal discharge one day, and lo and behold, there was a piece of foam 4x the size of her nostril stuck up there. I pulled it out with a pair of tweezers. Delicious!

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Specializes in LTC, peds, rehab, psych.

I had the almost EXACT thing happen to me!! When I was about 3 years old I stuck a huge piece of foam from a mattress up my nose. I started to smell bad after a couple days and my Mom took me to a doctor who yanked it out with tweezers. I still remember the doctor having one of those round silver mirrors on his head and it hurt like hell when he pulled it out!

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I had a male patient come in to the ED today. Toy car. "Southern orifice". Over the age of 20.

Explain that one. Ew.

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1 Swallen fork...

1 hair pin...a long one..

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A while back, I had an adult pt who stuck two AA batteries up his butt. Two days later, he came with a 9 volt in there and complained about how much it burned.

The mind boggles.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Family Practice.

My little girl was about three and about a half an hour after putting her to bed, I heard her rummaging around in the bathroom. I went in to see what she was doing and found her holding a q-tip. She had stuck orange tic-tacs up her nose, and was going to try to dig them out!! Luckily I caught her and was able to remove them without an ER visit. When I asked her why she would put candy up her nose, she said she was "pretending to be an elephant!!" LOL :p

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when my brother was in pre school, his nap-time cot was next to the counting beans. one day his nose was real stuffy so my mom took a look up there with a flashlight and the kidney beans had swollen and clogged his nose. my mom got them out with tweezers but to this day we still tease my brother (he is 17 now) any time he goes near beans :)

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

I ate a bar of soap one night when I was about 3 in the bath on my own. Stayed down for a while, felt sick a little while later and went downstairs to tell Mum and Dad that I didn't feel well.

Dad managed to chuck the newspaper on the floor before I vomited up some quite bubbly vomit!

It used to put the fear of God into me when my Mum used to threaten to wash my mouth out with soap for using bad language after that!

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