GROUNDNUT IN MY SON'S NOSTRIL

My day was going on has planned until my eldest son rushed into where i was and exclaimed that his younger brother had groundnut in his nostril!!! Oh my goodness! i thought and i rushed out to check my son's nostril but the groundnut was not in sight. I asked my son severally if he put the groundnut into his nose because i was hoping to get a no for an answer. I must say that he was rather calm for someone who had foreign stuff in his nostril.

After many affirmations, i decided to start various strategies in other to get the groundnut out. I closed the unaffected nostril with my finger and sucked air out from the nostril he claimed he put the groundnut. I also asked him to forcefully blow out his nose. All these i did until i got tired, worried and decided to go to the hospital.

So off we went to the hospital; the whole family because of my adventerous 6 year old son who decided to feed his nostril with groundnut instead of his mouth. The doctor checked him and saw the groundnut stuck in his nostril. He was asked to breath in deeply and forcefully breathe out continously. As the doctor was about to ring the ENT unit, the groundnut flew out of his nostril. Hooray!!! how relieved i was.

I later found out a simple procedure for dislodging items from the nostril.If you have a similar experience especcislly with a younger child; all you need to do is ,close the unaffected nostril, open your child's mouth and blow air forcefully into the mouth. The item in the nostril will fly out! Please only do this if item stuck in nostril is not a sharp object.

Cheers!