...and a boy, where would you put your gummy vitamin? Did I hear you say "in my nose" just then? But of course!
Yesterday I gave Ethan his daily gummy vitamin and moved on like usual. I saw him put it in his nose almost immediately, so I calmly said "No, baby...this does not go in your nose." He sweetly pulled it out and put it in his mouth (delicious). So, again I turned away and continued on my way.
Fast forward about an hour.
Ethan's nose was profusely running. Like, dripping down his shirt, profusely. He sounded congested when he spoke too...so I was wondering what was going on. "Did he put it up his nose again," I wondered. Will the gummy release an abnormal amount of vitamins into my child's mucous membranes and throw off his electrolytes and make him ill? Can that happen? See what I mean with the whole nursing school-associated hypochondria? I grabbed my handy-dandy pen light from my handy-dandy cool kid pocket protector for my uniform and shined it up his nose. I saw pink gooey goodness shoved wayyy back there. Cool.
I tried to squeeze his nostrils and squish it out. No good. I tried the squishy nose-ball suction thing. No good. I tried a Q-tip too. No good. By this time Ofir got home from work. He, being a bright human being, thought to get the tweezers and pull it out. That worked. He did, sad to say, bleed some. :(
Oh, my precious sweet boy.
Moral of the story: Monitor your children when they eat their vitamins. Make sure they actually eat it and not shove it up that thing called their nose. :)
-K
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