zella
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Post by zella on Dec 12, 2015 5:47:27 GMT
. . . when they were little.
My oldest dd was a holy terror. I had to call poison control multiple times. She climbed like a monkey, so finding a safe spot for anything was next to impossible.
The two I remember are rubbing alcohol (ex-h or myself was using it to clean shoes); and a small amount of morphine. Yeah, morphine. In an over the counter pill that you used to be able to buy in the UK.
My younger one wasn't as bad. She swallowed a coin. I strained or pulled apart every damn poop that kid made for 2 weeks except for ONE which happened when we were travelling and in a restaurant restroom (she wasn't in diapers and I wasn't about to grab her poop out of that toilet). After 2 weeks I had to take her to get an x-ray. Yep, you guessed it. The coin was gone. Down the drain in that restroom, I presume.
Oh, another funny thing. Younger dd had a lot of health problems (still does). She had an x-ray of her stomach for some reason (just a regular x-ray). The dr showed it to me and said that she had a ball of something in her stomach, probably hair. Now I know about trichotillomania (pulling out and eating hair), and I knew she didn't do that, so I was perplexed. For some reason we had to wait an hour or two, then they redid the x-ray, and the "ball" was gone. Then the stupid ass doctor asked me what she'd eaten for lunch before that first x-ray. Mac and cheese. Ah. It was a mac and cheese ball. I'm so glad I didn't let them do any invasive tests on the poor child.
That last story has me laughing so hard I'm crying.
My granddaughter is going to be just like her mother. She got into one of my medications and it earned her an overnight stay at a children's hospital. She tries to eat lip balms (well they do smell good). She eats dog kibbles, which I know is common. I won't tell you the more disgusting thing she's eaten. But at least a dozen times a day, it's "Cora! What do you have in your mouth? Give it to me! Spit it out!" She's 21 months old and such a pill.
So tell me your funny (or frightening) stories of kids eating things they shouldn't.
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Post by PLurker on Dec 12, 2015 5:54:31 GMT
A safety pin when DS was at school in 4K. Thank goodness it was closed. He told no one until me when I was tucking him in later that night. He had a stomach ache and then told me why. Off to the ER we went. Xrays to make sure it was closed and could pass etc. Got home LATE. He was a charismatic and cute little guy, so the hospital staff spoiled him and made his "stay" fun. Later when tucking him in for the SECOND time he commented "what fun that was!". The look on my face must have said it all as he quickly added, "not fun enough that I'd do it again, Mom. But they were nice there." Fun times, um, no.
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Post by sunnyd on Dec 12, 2015 5:55:22 GMT
My dh's kidney stone, lol! And it was my fault. Dh passed a kidney stone & was planning to take it to the dr. the next day to be tested, per the dr. I woke up early & packed dd's lunch. There was a sandwich bag on the kitchen counter, appeared clean, empty & unused so I filled it with Cheetos & sent dd to school. That night dh said, "where's that bag I put my kidney stone in?" I coulda killed him!! Who puts a freaking kidney stone in a sandwich bag & leaves it on the kitchen counter?!? So gross! But she was fine.
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Post by shanni on Dec 12, 2015 6:01:36 GMT
When youngest dd was about 18 months, she ate a tube of toothpaste. I called poison control and they advised me to give her as much milk as she would drink, because that would bind with the fluoride and help her not absorb too much of it. She ended up being okay, but she had the most toxic green poop for DAYS! We are talking neon green. It was so nasty!
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Post by theshyone on Dec 12, 2015 6:04:21 GMT
My youngest ate his older sisters Barbie shoes, multiple times. I could never figure out how he kept getting them. Fast forward till just a couple months ago and she admitted to feeding them to him. She was three.
A local greenhouse has koi. They would give the kids food to feed the koi. She would have that in her mouth faster than I could stop her around age 2.
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Post by mom on Dec 12, 2015 6:09:47 GMT
My kiddos didn't swallow anything weird, but my oldest did stuff a green pea in his nose. A trip to the ER with a 3 hour wait, for a 3 min procedure and out it came!
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Post by perumbula on Dec 12, 2015 6:11:40 GMT
I think the dog food was the worst my kids did. Surprisingly I have to tell middle schoolers "if it's not food it doesn't go in your mouth" almost as often as I had to say it to toddlers."  |
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zella
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Post by zella on Dec 12, 2015 6:43:49 GMT
Oh, these are some funny stories. Keep 'em coming!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 6:46:40 GMT
My son drank half a bottle of baby Tylenol. He pushed his chair to the counter stood on a couple cookbooks to get it. I called his doc and with his weight and the amount they said he would be fine.
He slept for 12 hours straight. And was soooooooo calm when he woke up!
Which goes along with the time that he got drunk at a Christmas party with a Montana senator. He was just about 18 months old. The two of the were so snockered, that their eyes were glistening. How does a toddler get drunk without taking a drink? Well he was eating the ice cubes a out of the senator's empty glass. PSA. Don't leave liquor glasses around with ice cubes still in them. But the upside is he slept until ten or 11 the next day and we got to miss breakfast at the in- laws. ( I had one rule that never ever got broken. Never ever wake a sleeping baby. EVER)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 6:50:54 GMT
My daughter counter surfs or she used to. Sometime I leave something out on the counter like rice that I am going to throw away, but needs to be taken out because the dog will eat it out of the garbage pail. She will find it and eat it. Gack! And amazingly she has never gotten food poisoned from this.
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Post by Daikon on Dec 12, 2015 10:06:37 GMT
My sons all ate weird things. Oldest ds would eat tubes of Chapstick and lick lotion off his hands. We had to keep it all put up high. Many times his breath would smell like baby lotion. He had hernia surgery at 19 months, and refused to eat anything so we couldn't leave the hospital until he did. My mil handed him a tube of Chapstick and he ate it. The nurses said fine, he ate, and sent us home. He also ate birdseed, and it wasn't just the sunflower seeds.
Middle ds was a fan of dog food. He always had it in his pockets.
Youngest ds was a big fan of the animal crackers and cracked corn at the petting zoo. He loved to feed the deer and geese, but always had to sample a few before he would share.
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Post by gryroagain on Dec 12, 2015 10:25:16 GMT
My oldest was bald as egg at birth. Maybe 2-3 strands of hair u til 3. People would always look at her, decked out in dresses, and say "what a handsome boy!" it rankled. So I found these teeny tiny clips and one day I put them on her 2 strands of hair and off we went to the mall. we spent a ton of time at the mall in Colorado springs that first year, because by 7 months she was full on running and it was winter, she could run to her hearts co tent at the mall. Well, we get there, I put her down, she looks at me quizzically, grabs 2 hair clips, and swallows them. Gone. So fast!
So off we go to the pediatrician at Ft Carson, same one I was sitting at 2 months before with a 6 month old convinced so ethnic horrible was going to happen because she was walking without ever crawling. Pediatrician does x rays- there they are! Closed, thankfully. I pick thru diapers for 2 days and find them...so gross.
We left her beautifully bald after that!
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Dec 12, 2015 10:47:19 GMT
I was 5 and I had a crush on a boy who lived in outt complex. One day I was outside and he dared me to eat some random plant so of course I had to follow through! It had some kind of juice gel stuff inside when you bit it but it wasn't a aloe vera plant that I know. Anyways my throat started to swell and I couldn't breath so off the the hospital I went by ambulance lol.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 12, 2015 14:09:08 GMT
She tries to eat lip balms (well they do smell good) I have a toddler who asks too "Eat lips?" (Lips is what my two youngest call lip balm.) Umm, nope buddy. Mommy puts lips on you. |
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Post by johnnysmom on Dec 12, 2015 14:57:23 GMT
Gosh, compared to some of these stories my kids are/were tame, lol. ODS ate 2 flintstones vitamins, I had 2 in my hand and asked him to choose which color he wanted (as we did every day) and before I knew it he'd grabbed the both and downed them. Poison control said he'd likely be ok, lol (first kid, I worried about everything  ) YDS drank an unknown amount of rubbing alcohol. He broke into the bathroom while ODS was in there and came downstairs carrying it, open. No one knew if he'd drank it or just got a bit on his lips (he smelled of it). Poison control said to watch for drunkeness, if he drank it he holds his alcohol well, appeared sober all day. Same kid also stuck a popcorn kernel up his nose, ER doc asked why, his answer was "because"  |
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Post by malibou on Dec 12, 2015 15:35:06 GMT
My siblings were the stick-stupid-shit-up-your-nose kind. My older sister stuck results candy up her nose. Boy did she howl when they started burning. My little sister stuck a truck-load of Barbie buttons up her nose. My brother wedged a Cocoa Puff up each nostril. It was hilarious to see him.
My son found a mound of rolly polly bugs when he was about 18 months. I turned around for a second, and he had shoved handfuls in his mouth. They were all tucked into his cheeks and were spilling out of his mouth. Gah.
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Post by jenkate77 on Dec 12, 2015 15:36:29 GMT
Two days ago my youngest (the climber) came up to me crunching something. It was a light bulb from the Christmas tree - and he was crunching it like candy!
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Post by just PEAchy on Dec 12, 2015 15:41:40 GMT
My youngest swallowed a dime when he was 2 or 3. My oldest drank wall paint and eyeglass cleaner- called poison control on both of these, he was fine.
The best story involves my niece, though. I bought her an "I'm 3" necklace. One day my she came up to my sister and said she ate it. My sister didn't believe her, but niece kept insisting. So they took her to the doctor for an X-ray and, sure enough, there it was. You could see the whole thing. Sister had to go through her bowel movements for several days and it did pass with no problems. Never bought her jewelry again.
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Post by newlywoods03 on Dec 12, 2015 15:41:53 GMT
My boys are almost 6 and 4.. They never ate anything weird and nothing up their noses either. Phew! They give me a run for my money in other ways  |
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Post by femalebusiness on Dec 12, 2015 15:43:58 GMT
When my daughter was crawling age she sucked all of the glitter off of a christmas ornament. It happened while my sister was watching her and she forgot to tell me about it. The next morning when I changed her diaper I opened it and it looked like someone had dumped a bottle of glitter in her poop. I called my sister to ask what the hell happened and all she could do was laugh.
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Post by iluvpink on Dec 12, 2015 16:10:37 GMT
Nothing but the tip of a Crayola marker. One of the few pros of having a tiny house and a child who was never quiet. She really couldn't get out of my sight to get into too much trouble.
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Post by birdy on Dec 12, 2015 17:03:05 GMT
DS ate a dead fly when he was a baby. He was still pretty small and not moving around yet. I saw a dead fly on the floor, went to the kitchen to get a napkin to pick it up with and when I came back he had rolled over to where it was and was chewing on something. The fly was gone. I called the pediatrician crying and they laughed at me, then reassured me he'd be fine.
DD was toddling around in the street (dead end) and she picked up a piece of tar from the cracks and ate it.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Dec 12, 2015 17:52:45 GMT
OMG, these are all so funny! Mine is that oldest DD swallowed a penny and I had to do the "watch for it to come through her system" thing - ugh! Well, that was pretty tame compared to her younger sister who put a googly eye up her nose when she was 4. It had fallen off a craft she did at preschool and she looked at it and thought it was just the right size to fit up her nose...um, not quite. She got it stuck, then panicked when she couldn't get it out (all this time she was still in her room alone) and ended up shoving it further in until she couldn't reach it at all, at which point she finally came upstairs and told me what she had done. I was in the middle of helping her older sister get ready for her birthday party (yep - same day!), and had to drop everything and take her to the ER bc her nose & throat were starting to swell and she was asthmatic. So about 2 hours wait time at the ER for a 5-minute procedure...and many calls to DH who was on his way home from work. Got home just in time for oldest DD's friends coming for her birthday party. She still refers to it as the time her little sister ruined her b-day party! The last was the two sisters ganging up on DS when he was a toddler and sticking nerds candy into his ear...that one was not his fault, and he was furious at them. Found out much later (like last year, she's a college student, LOL) that middle DD ate grass on a dare when she was in middle school. |
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Post by milocat on Dec 12, 2015 17:53:57 GMT
My sons all ate weird things. Oldest ds would eat tubes of Chapstick and lick lotion off his hands. We had to keep it all put up high. Many times his breath would smell like baby lotion. He had hernia surgery at 19 months, and refused to eat anything so we couldn't leave the hospital until he did. My mil handed him a tube of Chapstick and he ate it. The nurses said fine, he ate, and sent us home. He also ate birdseed, and it wasn't just the sunflower seeds. Middle ds was a fan of dog food. He always had it in his pockets. Youngest ds was a big fan of the animal crackers and cracked corn at the petting zoo. He loved to feed the deer and geese, but always had to sample a few before he would share. But eventually you run out of up high, especially with a climber. My older daughter ate all kinds of things too. Chapstick, lotion, mascara, toothpaste, cat food. Cat food under the pillow. She prefered the cat food at my mom's, so she'd have a handful in her bag when she'd come home. Playdough, and markers. I've blocked out some of it, I'm sure there was more. |
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Post by melanell on Dec 12, 2015 17:58:19 GMT
My oldest never did anything like that, but my youngest choked on a Lego figure once, and later tried to eat deodorant.
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Post by melanell on Dec 12, 2015 18:01:03 GMT
I have heard stories of my dad eating dog food as a kid. And mud. And my aunt ate little berry type things from a "helicopter" type seed as a child. She wound up vomiting and running a high fever. Scared her mother half to death. Apparently she was well known for eating anything she could get her hands on. She sounded like a handful as a child. And she was the second to last of a large brood. Her poor mother probably wondered why she got this high-maintenance kid late in life. |
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Post by Nicole in TX on Dec 12, 2015 18:02:27 GMT
This thread is hysterical! I babysat for a boy once who had started to stink. His mom kept bathing him, but right after he bath he would smell again. His mom to him to the doctor who said, 'I know that smell" and fished a rotten pea out of his nose!  |
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Post by mommamagoo on Dec 12, 2015 18:26:30 GMT
I think the kidney stone wins. So far, the worst we've had is dog food and a bug.
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Post by Grom Pea on Dec 12, 2015 18:48:18 GMT
Ds (3.5) attempted to drink hand sanitizer at the end of a party last month, i presume he was hot from running around and we'd would have left but were waiting for some friends who needed a ride. I saw him go up to the table and quicker than I could yell no he had his mouth to the pump and had started to press, I don't think he got very much because he had a bad expression and stopped. Luckily the hosts were still packing their car and brought him a juice box.
Frighteningly my 10 month old was crawling at the preschool coop we go to. I was sitting eating a snack and he was over on the mats and put his hands to his mouth. I said I think he just ate something, another mom said he was just chewing his hand. I ran over and he smiled at me and it was green. He somehow found the one bead that had fallen off of someone's necklace. Luckily I was able to fish it out, but this is why I carry him around most days.
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Post by peasapie on Dec 12, 2015 18:52:42 GMT
I was on so often with poison control that I thought they would send DYFS my way. Everything from baby shampoo to a broken thermometer to my mom's xanax. (That one required a visit to the hospital, an emetic and charcoal.)
I don't miss those moments.
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