# Young children swallowing inappropriate objects **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464 "2009-03-31T17:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/21 "2009-04-15T01:04:49Z")
I wonder how much change they find at the waste management plants? ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/22 "2009-04-15T02:28:55Z")
My friends kid got a christmas ornament stuck in his throat. There were no surgical forceps small enough on our little island the story goes and he was medivaced to Puerto Rico to have it removed. In hindsight everyone realised they should have flown down the smaller forceps. We call him the fifty thousand dollar kid - he’s ok, but his grandmother had to go back to work to replenish her retirement fund. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/23 "2009-04-15T02:45:47Z")
When I was 7 or so, I saw this really awesome (to a 7 year-old) _Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom_ episode where this snake swallowed an entire egg whole. The only thing I remember now about the aftermath is my dad digging pieces of a boiled egg out of my throat, yelling “Can you breathe???!!!??!!” ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/24 "2009-04-15T08:49:31Z")
My daughter swallowed a Lite Brite light bulb at age 3. It was just a tiny piece of plastic, but one end was pointy. I took her to the doctor as soon as I could, and he just told me to wait for it to come out the other end, which it did. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/25 "2009-04-15T10:13:02Z")
My brother drank a considerable amount of Pert Shampoo when he was a toddler; my mom said she was horrified when he wandered out of the bathroom with a green shiny face, burping bubbles. He also ate a roach. Neither of these will kill you, but I wish I recalled what my mother did about the shampoo…do you try to dilute it with water? Milk? Make the kid yak? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/26 "2009-04-15T12:59:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I wonder how much change they find at the waste management plants? Whatever amount it is, they earned it. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/27 "2009-04-15T16:43:44Z")
I swallowed a yellow plastic bingo chip when I was about six. Yes, I was old enough to know better, but I had two older brothers. They dared me. My 3-year-old loves popcorn, and loves to “share” with his 1-year-old little brother. I have found more than 10 popcorn kernels at a time in the little one’s diaper. ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/28 "2009-04-15T16:55:31Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > When I was about 6, I swallowed the iron token from a Monopoly board game. Nobody cared though because it truly is the lamest piece EVER. What?! The iron is most definitely the coolest piece ever as it has a special power. If your opponents are not paying attention, they may not notice that you have landed on their property due to the iron’s small stature until it’s too late. I always choose the iron. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/29 "2009-04-15T19:44:44Z")
Moon Unit swallowed a penny once when she was about 18 months. We’d been visiting friends, and I kept noticing coins scattered around their family room floor, and as I saw them I picked them up and put them on a nearby table. We found out a day or so later that evidently I’d missed one! We decided that this lends a new meaning to the phrases ‘change the diaper’ and ‘spend a penny’. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/30 "2009-04-15T22:07:24Z")
When I was a tyke I had a Nerf rocket launcher. It looked like a little tank. You fit the rocket on the barrel and stomped or punched the hell out of the launch pad to shoot the rocket. I discovered that a spent .22 rifle casing fit perfectly in the launch tube and made much more interesting sounds when it hit something than the stupid foam rubber rocket. I thought it was really cool until my sister came along and stomped on the launcher one day. She didn’t think there was anything in it (she claimed). She just wanted to hit me in the face with a puff of air. Yep, I was in front of it at just the right (wrong?) angle and she shot the casing right down my throat. I blackmailed her mercilessly to keep me from telling Mom. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/31 "2009-04-15T23:00:42Z")
When my youngest sister was a baby, my mom was changing her diaper one day and freaked out because there was a dark, shiny substance in amongst the baby poop. My mom called the pediatrician and nearly rushed her to the emergency room before she took a closer look (or perhaps poked at it, I’m not sure) to realize it was pieces of black plastic garbage bag. No idea how my sister managed to swallow that, but none of us knew she’d eaten it until the diaper change. ---
**Author:** ![CallMeKate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@CallMeKate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeKate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464/32 "2009-04-16T00:17:14Z")
I ate a caterpillar once, my sister told me it was a fuzzy tootsie roll, any of you familiar with wooly bears? Yes, those are a real treat… natures own chocolate flavored taffy like candy… not. I was sucking on a nickel one time when I was 5 or so, and it got stuck to the roof of my mouth, literally suctioned there… My mother DUG it out with her nails, my mouth filled with blood… Money isn’t always fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-children-swallowing-inappropriate-objects/491464.md?page=1)