Noah’s traumatization

Yep.  My daughter loved to stick anything up her nose.  It started with carrots.  So I made sure to chop the pieces big enough that she couldn't shove them up her nose, but she would just chew them up a bit, spit out the pieces, then stick them up her nose.  We took two trips to the doctor to have carrot pieces removed from nose.  Great fun.  LOL  She also liked sticking the little fuzzies that come off of knit blankets up her nose, then blowing them out, then sticking them up there again!  

I have to say, I never stuck a single thing up my nose, thanks to my overly attentive mother watching me like a hawk and putting the fear of God in me every chance she got. Does anyone remember the show "Rescue 911" or "America's Most Wanted"? My mom used these as teaching tools regularly starting before I was in preschool, but the downside was that I think I became a paranoid hypochondriac for the better part of my childhood...everything in the house could potentially kill me at any second, and every white van sent me into a panic.

I don't know which is worse: feeling that fear everyday or learning not to stick a pistachio up your nose the hard way one time :)

You know, the American Pediatric Association does advice that children really under 8 should not consume whole nuts.  I think its a choking hazard, but a nut stuck up the nose could very possibly be a reason why too. haha

omg i cannot tell you!  i once stuck a bead up my nose and had to be taken to the er to have it pulled out! my son once had m&ms in his nose and they started melting i freaked at first i thought it was blood then he licked his lip and said mom its soo good! i almost barfed and he laughed so hard he was crying! then told me it was just m&ms! another time my nephew stuck a pea in his nose and couldn't get it out but didn't tell any one either. so after awhile he started to smell aweful! we couldn't figure out what it was so my brother took his son to a dr. they found the pea in an xray. it was decaying! that was the smell! i have many more stories about such things! i have 13 nieces and nephews a son of my own and im the center of what we call around my neck of the woods the single parents club! so there are A LOT of little kids who have come to me with the "AUNT MIMI GET IT OUT! I LOST IT UP THERE!" OOOO KIDS gotta love em!!!!

When my younger brother was Noah's age, he stuck a clear perler bead (those beads you iron together) up his nose. I looked up the exact moment it happened; he shrugged and shoved it up there, and immediately he started panicking. It only took me 10 minutes to get him to blow it out. He was terrified, poor little guy.

I'd forgotten about this post. THe other week my daughter stuck a reece's pieces up her nose. My husband was super worried and upset about it , we took her to Health Centre to be told that the chocolate would melt and she'd be fine (blowing her nose had given me that clue) but that the sugar could cause pain in her nose. Then tonight she's pretending it still hurts so she can have more tylenol.

Oh man, this one brought tears to my eyes. (from laughter of course) so this is what I have to look forward to when my 6 month old son gets older? Poor Noah lol glad you were able to help him.

I used to stick things in my nose when I was little. I liked soft things, and we had a cat, so I used to end up with clumps of fur in my nose. To this day I still can't figure out how i kept managing it or what would possess me to do it. I can kind of relate to Noah.

How about a vitamin C tablet, a screw and a peanut?
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i had to take my son to the urgent clinic to have a plastic BB removed from his ear. When the Dr finally got it out, he told my boy, "no more putting things into your ears, ok?" To which my son replied, "Well, i got it out of my nose..."

After picking my kids up from daycare one day, my son Elijah tells me he stuck a little pebble in his ear. I asked him why and he told me because the other kids in his classroom were singing and he didn't want to hear it! One of many trips for Elijah to the emergency room!

My 7 year old daughter broke a plastic spoon and shoved half of the spoon part up her nose and it took us an hour and a half to get it out. She wouldn't tell me what it was, and I was horrified that she was going to need surgery because I couldn't even get it with the tweezers, but finally she was able to blow out of that nostril with such a force it hit me in the face, along with the other disgusting things that come out of a nose!

My brother once stuck a Chiclet up his nose. A $75 emergency room deductible later and we were the proud owners of the world's most expensive Chiclet.

We've had 2 emergency trips to have things removed from my son's nose. Once was playdoh that the ENT had to suction out. The second was 4th of July weekend, so the dr was closed. He put a broken piece of tail from a toy dinosaur in his nose, and we couldn't get it out. The ER tried, but he bled so bad, they couldn't see anything. They had to put him out w/ Ketamine- Special K on the streets- to remove it. It was also the kind of toy that grows in water, so after being stuck in there for 7 hrs, it was the size of a foam earplug. That was 2 yrs ago, and he hasn't done it again.

When he was about 3,my nephew stuck a pinto bean up his nose. His mom wondered why his cold wouldn't go away after a month and why his snot was so stinky! As the doctor examined him, he found the bean had sprouted and was growing a bean plant in the boy's sinus cavity!!! o.0

My only comparison... when my son was two he was crying saying, "hurt, hurt!" I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I'm to the point of panic because he starts screaming. I think maybe there's something in his clothes because he's pulling at his shirt and pants. I had him sitting there in just a diaper... he's still screaming and I'm trying to hold it together. That's when he moves just enough for a bead to fall to the floor. He had been in the craft closet, gotten in the bead box and stuffed his diaper FULL of beads. So I set him free from the misery of that diaper. Naked and happy he ran out of the room before I could catch him.... beads still stuck all over him... but he was free!

I really hate to admit this but as a child, I think everything possible went up my nose. My mom says the pen lid was the worst of them all, though, because no one knew it was up there and...this is sick, mind you...I began to stink. The doctor's apparently terrified me into up-the-nose celebacy after that by threatening me and my probiscus with gigantic, frightening-looking stainless steel surgical instruments.

at one xmas night, my little sister, at the time about a year and half old, started to cry.
her nose was running, and something was apparently blocking the way. Her stuffed teddy bear was also thorn open, and little cubes of foam came out of it. she had actually stuffed tens of those little cubes up her nose, so far in that the doctor had to use some special tool to go and get them all out....

My oldest son, put popcorn kernals in his ears. He kept saying, "huh," "what," "I didn't hear you." My husband thought he was being smart. And a week later, yes a week, we discovered the corn. We kept asking him if he put something in his ears and he said no. We looked and looked, nothing showed up.
My second oldest son put paper in his ears when he was 10. Yes, 10. He said his sister was bothering him and he didn't want to hear him anymore.

Noah, you are such a sweet little guy! no nuts in the nose, i also reccommend against marbles, cheetos, and m&ms.

just saying : )

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I just cannot stop laughing. In all seriousness, I am still laughing. I have an ADHD 8 year old. Your blog is so much more refreshing than an ADHD blog. I think I will stick around.

My daughter stuck a seed pod from a birch tree in her nose. Not a small one, either. Birch pods are long, worm-like things, and the one in her nose must have been at least 2 inches long. I was lucky to catch the end of it, which was barely visible, and pull it out like a really long booger. She sneezed for about 10 minutes after the ordeal.

My cousin stuck some candy up his nose and didn't tell anyone because he was afraid of getting in trouble. It was discovered a few days later when it started to rot and the smell was noticeable while sitting next to him. *shudder* At least Noah let you know what was going on!
Oh, and apparently when I was little I would roll up balls of paper and put them in my ears. What can I say? I was a weird kid.

I don't remember but the story is told that I once let a little boy on the playground stick a rock up my nose. I went the whole day at school (I was in kindergarten) and didn't say anything to anyone untill I got home. My mom was finally able to get me to blow it out but it was almost an ER visit.

My kids haven't done anything with their nose yet, thankfully but they are only almost 2 and almost 5. So there is still time :S

I have been told that I, too, stuck a nut up my nose when I was a kid. It was only a peanut though. My mom freaked out and wanted to take me to the ER and she called my dad @ work and made a big to do about it. Meanwhile, I sneezed it out and was doing alright. I'm pretty sure that deterred me from sticking anything else up there. LOL

I once swallowed a penny... ended up pooping it out later... Kids are just curious creatures.

My eldest pushed this tiny lego piece up her nose once. It was the 'light' of the police bikes years ago, a tiny, round and yellow thingy. She was scared but her dad was the one freaking out speaking of surgeries and such. I told him to calm down and shut up cause he was scaring her. He did and somehow managed to stand on the bathroom door watching me calm her down and check inside her nose. It was there, way up high so I took my tweezers and tried getting it out. The first attempt sucked cause it went even higher but I finally got a grasp on it and pulled it down and out. We were all relieved.

It wasn't my son that did this but my brother and he was far old enough to know better. But he stuck a glo stick (one of the slim ones you snap so it glows) up his nose. And it proceeded to get stuck. So he's in the bathroom with the lights out because he thinks it'll be easier to remove that way. Trying to get a blue glo stick out of his nose. I'm in tears laughing and then finally got the tweezers and was able to nudge it to a point where he could "farmer's rocket" it's way out of his nose. To boot when it did come blasting out it bounced off the mirror we were in front of and smacked him in the forehead. Ahhh memories. My brother is a bit odd.

EVERYBODY's had this happen. Well... almost. My son had had a cold for a while, and with his colds sometime come bloody noses. I picked him up from preschool one day, noticing the area inside one of his nostrils looked a bit bloody - but we had to run tot he grocery store and I figured I'd take care of it as soon as we got home. As we rolled around the grocery store, he kept "blowing" his nose. I asked him to stop as i didn't have a kleenex. I told him we'd take care of it AS SOON as we got home. He kept blowing. And blowing. And then, all of the sudden, out shot a kidney bean!!! They'd been working with beans making mosaics in school and managed to shove a VERY LARGE kidney bean up his right nostril and then blew it out in the pasta isle of the grocery store!!!! Once it was out, all was right in the world. Kids..... ;o)

When I was three or four I stuck a raisin up my nose to the point that my parents took me to the ER. The put superglue on the end of a needle - stuck it up my nose - got ahold of the raisin and pulled it out.

My 3.5 year old daughter ate a Christmas light this year because she wanted to sparkle!

My daughter stuck a pom-pom up her nose. Try as we might I could not get it out. Off to the clinic we went. My daughter was very good and laid very still for the doctor. He was so impressed that he gave her the change from his pocket. I did reinforce to her though that the money was because she was so brave for the doctor and not a reward for putting the pom-pom in her nose. She was only about 3 but she still remembers that and she never put anything up her nose again

Ha! My daughter shoved something in her nose (maybe a jelly bean?) when she had just turned 2. I had to hold her down on my lap and extract it with a pair of tweezers... It was traumatic for BOTH of us!

Are you kidding? That's a rite of parent passage, man! My oldest stuck beads up her nose... my second child liked swallowing things and opening her diaper when she was about 18 months old was like a surprise package every time. She's the same child who chewed the end off a glow stick (6 years old) and came screaming to me and daddy looking like some psychedelic glow monster. Thank God those things are non-toxic...
Speaking of which... never, ever tell Noah that glow stick stuff isn't dangerous. Me might get the idea to sling it all over his room to make it look like the galaxy. *face palm*
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Those pistachios are scaring me.

I live in fear of when these kinds of incidents occur with my Puffin. I have only heard that cry once, and I nearly broke my head open running out of the shower. lolHttp://www
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hahaha, I once stuck a dime up my nose when I was like 7, I was freaking but managed to get it out on my own because I didn't wat to tell my parents what I had done LOL. Now when my older boy was about 8 we took him to the ped's for a check up and somehow ( he claims he didn't know they were in there) he has 3 beanie baby pellets stuck on one of his ears right up against the ear drum. So off to the ENT dr we go and the sound of the suction equipment freaked him out too badly for the Dr to remove them, we ended up have to schedule him for the OR and have him knocked out in order to remove them *shakes head*

When my 3-year-old stuck a juniper berry up her nose, we closed the empty nostril and sucked the berry out with a straw.

I did that too, i came out of whereever i was, with a visable bump in my nose though, my mom asks "what is that".... cool as can be i say "its a peanut"

for my daughter, it was a pebble. when we left the drs office after removing it, I had to reiterate - nothing in any holes in your body ANYWHERE, because when I said, no rocks up the nose, she responded with "in my ear?"

luckily, the lesson stuck - good luck!

I never stuck stuff up my nose...But my cousin & I decided decide that jumper cables would make a wonderful fashion statement.
Long story short....mom had to pour peroxide in the holes the cables left in my cheeks. (not the GOOD peroxide, we are talking about the early 80's here, when peroxide HURT)
My bratty cousin had made ME go first of course. so she never got injured...i think my screaming scared her out of repeating my demonstration LOL But I must say...i DO have cute dimples now :)

Now I don't feel so bad after reading replies to your story! When I was two I stuck a rock up my nose (I'm 55 now!) and it was one of thoses family stories that just WOULD NOT go away! I about gave my mom a heart attack and thank goodness my best friend's mom from across the street was a nurse and helped get it out. I don't remember the incident myself at all.

In elementary school we used to shove red hots up our noses to fake a bloody nose to get out of class... those little suckers burn!

My son once stuffed the stuffing from one of those turtle toys that display light on the ceiling. Apparently you can get all the stuffing out of it and into your nose. Thank god I wasn't home, My husband had to deal with it first thing in the morning. There was lots of screaming and tweezing stuffing out. I think my son thought he was blowing his nose with tissue? Who knows... I pray the second boy (soon coming of that age) doesn't decide to do something like that....

My 3 year old aughter was eating popcorn. She has a thing for seeds, she likes to save them, anykind...oragne, watermellon...popcorn, and plant them in the yard. So we were having family movie night with popcorn in tow and I look over at her to see her finger in her ear. I said "What are you doing?" to which she replied, "Do you like my earings? They are seeds, I am saving them for later in the garden." I asked her to come next to me and I found a popcorn seed in each ear and each nostril! Tweezers, tissue, blowing, and one horrible movie night memory later, all was well. She has not done it since but she does still save the seeds.____Also my little sister swalloed a penny when she was 3 or 4, we had company over. I remember my mom calling the emergency line and they said you have to wait for it to come out, if she's not choking she's fine. The company was so freaked out that they never came back to our house! LOL

My sisters son had a horrible smell coming from his face...finally go to doctor. He had pulled off the little black button from the VCR and shoved it so far up his nasal cavity,it got infected! What a nightmare....funny kid. Years later that same VCR ( this was the 80's) broke and my sister got a call from the repair shop saying its fine now,we got the 4 little monkeys out of the movie slot!