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Our 2.5-year-old stuck a raisin up his nose. We were concerned that we needed to help get it out. (Warning: just let it alone.) So... we tried nudging it with a Q-tip, extracting it with tweezers, cajoling him to blow his nose; nothing worked. Growing more concerned with each failed attempt, we decided we needed to help him sneeze. What better to help him sneeze than with pepper? (Warning: bad idea.) In a moment of blind idiocy on our part, we put a pinch of finely ground white pepper into a bulb nasal syringe and squirted it up his nose. We quickly realized it was a horrible, horrible mistake. He cried and cried, and to top it all off, the raisin STILL didn't come out. We apologized profusely and consoled our weeping boy.
The next day we found a bleached swollen raisin on the floor. (Remember: just let it alone.) Sorry, I guess this post has become more "Guess what the stupid parents did" than "Guess what my kid did." But.... he started it!
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