A Fun Fact for Friday:

[JimmyJazz]

If you hold the nostril of a small child closed and blow hard into their mouth, any foreign object they may have shoved into the other nare will fly forcefully out.

G'head. Ask me how I know. :D

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. I don't think I even want to know how you know this

:silly:
but I am curious what the object was...

[JimmyJazz]

2. A yellow hair bead.

It's really not nice to laugh at a child who is clearly in distress :o

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. but it was oh so funny

:evilgrin:

[JimmyJazz]

23. I know. It was.

I'm going to hell for laughing at my kid, aren't I? :rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

25. someone has to laugh at them!

:hi:

[matcom]

3. but if you hold BOTH of their nostrils closed AND their mouths....

you win

[JimmyJazz]

4. Remind me not to ask you to babysit for my kids, okay.

:P

[matcom]

7. Uncle Matcom will do a GREAT job!

...fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about...... :D

[Debi]

14. Tommy.....can you hear me? n/t

[meganmonkey]

6. Do you think it works for grownups too?

:rofl:

[JimmyJazz]

9. Why? Do you have a proclivity toward shoving

Peanut M&Ms up your nose? You do look like the type :silly:

[meganmonkey]

12. Naw, I'm more of a carob-covered soy nut kind of gal

:)

[JimmyJazz]

15. You just want me to blow in your mouth!

:silly:

[meganmonkey]

17. Uh-oh - this could get a little kinky...

But I have to shut down and leave work now...

I'll take a rain-check! :silly:

[swimboy]

8. My brother put a vitamin way up his nose once.

The doctor got it out. If he does it again, we'll try it your way!:rofl:

[JimmyJazz]

10. That little bit of information cost me $50.00!

Seriously. :crazy:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. when my brother was about 2

he shoved Plasticine up his nose...man that was funny! (in my defense i was 5)

[JimmyJazz]

13. Everytime I tried to call someone (my parents, merh, etc) to tell

them where I was (the ER) and why (small child with hair bead up her nose), I started laughing. Small child was laughing, too - so I'm not a total meanypants.

[johnnie]

16. Here ya go again JJ

Using your little ones for the easy laugh.
I'm surprised at you.


But it works. LOL

[JimmyJazz]

20. I thought I might hear from you!

What will I do when they are grown up and no longer fodder for my amusement?

Here's the really scary part. The child thought that the treatment was hilarious and suddenly the idea of shoving objects up one's nose didn't seem so horrible. She's gonna do it again - I just know it.

[merh]

18. So, they charged you $50 to tell you how to blow in her mouth!

:shrug: That just goes to prove that medicine is not about healing, but about making money! :freak:

So, is this the same junior JJ that gave herself a mullet? :silly:

[JimmyJazz]

21. TWICE! She cut her hair TWICE in the same week!

Here's the thing, once you go to the ER, unless you sign yourself or your kid out AMA, you are there for the duration. The nurse told me what they were going to do, but at that point, it was too late for me to give it a try myself. Then, when we were in the room, they made me do it - which makes sense. I don't want some dude with his mouth on my kid. Ick.

[merh]

28. Well, it is a good thing to know.

When I stuck the plastic in my ear I was so scared -- I hated to tell my parents (I didn't, my tattle tell sister did). I remember the awful suction they used to remove it. I was scared out of my wits and the suction thingy made an horrible noise and hurt. Then I got a lecture from that mean ole doctor. I was only 5 and I DO recall that awful experience.

I also remember being in the hospital when I was 2 1/2 -- so some kids do remember such things.

:hug: Lucky for your little JJjr, you and she giggled and laughed, that means the experience wasn't that bad and if she remembers it when she is an adult, she will smile and be able to remove the bead from your grandbaby's nose without going to the ER. :-)

:loveya:

[Debi]

19. My son was sitting in his room watching TV

and I came in to tell him it was time to go to bed. He got in bed and I hugged him and told him I loved him and started turning off the light and walking out the door. He said to me, "Mom, can you get this bead out of my ear before you go?" "WHAT? Why is there a bead in your ear?" "Well, my ear hurt and I was trying to heal it." It came out with a q-tip and I poured hydrogen poroxide in his ear. All better by the AM. :silly: kids!

[JimmyJazz]

22. I don't suppose blowing hard in his other ear would have

quite the same affect as blowing in ones mouth :shrug:

I'm glad you were able to get the bead out. It's really a little scary when it happens.

[Debi]

27. Give your little one a hug from me

and know that kids like that are EVERYWHERE!

[IntravenousDemilo]

24. Just think, you probably could have plugged his other ear and his mouth

and blown into his nose, and you'd have got the same result that JimmyJazz did -- eustachian tubes and all that.

[Debi]

26. And who would he have been to argue with me?

I mean the kid put a bead in his ear to 'heal' it!!

[IntravenousDemilo]

30. Yeah, you could say it was "nose therapy" n/m

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. Sounds like SOMEONE just saved about a thousand bucks worth of medical

bills!

:thumbsup:

It's funny, most pediatric gastroenterology and ear nose and throat docs I know have compiled their own photo file of interesting things they have removed from the gullets, trachea, and noses of kids, including beads, the fists of Barbies, etc. etc.