Terrible eperience. For those of you who have children, Polly Pocket toys are tools of the devil. My 4 year old daughter, in a moment of boredom yesterday, decided to shove a tiny toy shoe, a pink high heel about the size of a pinky nail, up her nostril. She told my wife when she got home from work (my daughters stay with their great grandmother during the day) and we spent last night trying to make her sneeze, blow her nose etc. We took her to the doctor this morning and in a brutal scene that I won't soon forget it took six people, my wife, myself, 3 nurses, and a doctor to hold my kicking and screaming daughter down while they shoved various tools up her nose to extract it. After 15 horrible minutes, the doctor finally got the thing out. We went home and threw away all the tiny toys she had and she has promised she will never shove anything up her nose again.

Parents out there, be careful with the Polly Pockets.

that's awful. I should be more careful, the kids have tiny little legos all over the place

scary!!

keep her away from kinder eggs!

I can't stand those Polly things!

(un)fortunately, my daughter was "cured" of sticking things up her nose when (as a 3 year-old) she stuck an un-popped popcorn kernel up her nose, which became lodged up there. Finally we took her to the hospital, and thankfully since the doctor said that it had started to expand (from the moisture in there).

Then he proceded to reprimand my wife for being "a careless parent" and letting the child eat popcorn unsupervised.

After the initial shock, my wife let him have it. Hopefully it cured him of being such a self-righteous *ss.

PurpleJedi said:

charlottegelin said:

YUP! When my wife grilled him, he admitted to not having kids of his own.
Explains the stupidity.

PurpleJedi said:

people without kids of their own just cannot know but they insist on giving advice and criticism, as if we should be grrateful for it

I learned this from an old doctor when my oldest daughter stuck an eraser up her nose. You press on the OTHER nostril to close it,hold a kleenex up to the nose (very important!!) and blow in their mouth. The object should come flying out of the nostril. Try this a couple times and if it doesn't work then call the doctor,

when I was a kid I had that game "Don't spill the beans." Well yes I did it I stuck a bean up my nose. I could not get it out and I went into my mom and dad room to tell them what I did. They had to take me to the emergency room, I stuck it up so far the doctor had a hard time getting it out...

My mom stuck a raisin up her nose when she was little and my little sister did the same with a piece of dry Indian corn.

when we were kids my best friend used to put coco puffs up her nose

shellyevon said:

We did try that. My mom saw that on the Internet. We tried 3 or 4 times and it didn't work, unfortunately.

PurpleJedi said:

to your wife for letting that idiot doctor have it. A parent can't watch their kid(s) 24/7, and anybody with half a brain knows that. I hope your wife switched doctors after that unfortunate experience.

My youngest nephew (when he was three), stuck a piece of macaroni up his nose. My mom and sister-in-law took him to the emergency room, and from the way my mom talked, it was similar to what Gotta experienced. Luckily, they were able to get it out, but my mom said my nephew was screaming at the top of his lungs the whole time. I wonder why it is that little kids stick things up their nose?

PurpleJedi said:

That makes it even worse! Just made the doctor look more like an ass for criticizing your wife the way he did.

PurpleJedi said:

NO WAY !!!!!

WE DID THAT TOO my son stuck the un-popped popcorn kernel up his nose and then came to me saying, "momma, something's in my nose" at first i thought it was some kinda bugger but, then i realized what he did and i FLIPPED OUT (im not the best with situations like that - as you will see lol) so what did i do ????








i had no car with me ... my husband had taken the car with him that day....












so, what do you do ???











you guessed it





























i called 911




im all freaked out... they were like, yeah, this happens a lot so, they tried a few things, nothing worked, they finally took him down to the ambulance and used some sort of small hose thing that sucked it right out. WHEW !!!!! scared the shit outta me


hes never done that again





glad yours came out as well, and next time tell that doctor to kiss both our asses

awwwww poor baby


I remember when my daughter was about 3, she stuck her arm into the wet/dry vac. The attachment wasn't on it so she just stuck her arm in it. She just simply rolled the vac to my dad and said "Papa, my arm". Me and father being the weirdos we are, cracked up because she was sooooo calm and matter of fact about it. My mother freaked out and yelled at us for laughing.

We just got some lotion and it came right out.

Rhondab said:

LOL. My mom will get on my ass about her grandchildren quicker than anything else.

When I was about 4 i stuck a pearl up my nose. She was able to blow it out, but I was sooo scared. I don't know why so many little kids do that.

Rhondab said:

oh my god

Glad ya got it out. POLLY POCKETS are ADORABLE TOYS what age does it SAY should play with them? I wouldn't say they are toys of the devil EVER. LOl. Is it 3 and up? Glad she's O.K. ya do have to be CAREFUL with Kids. NOBODY should STICK THINGS UP THEIR NOSE.... VERY DELICATE. KIDS Don'T Know...
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