You Ate WHAT?!?!
By mzz663
@mzz663 (2772)
United States
September 24, 2009 12:01am CST
I was in the emergency room the other day and there was a two year old that had swallowed a little plastic TEDDY BEAR. When the Dr. came out to the parents, he had the x-ray and showed the parents that she did, indeed, swallow a teddy bear. It was funny because the teddy bear was sitting straight up, like it was sitting there just waiting to be seen.
Have your kids ever swallowed anything weird and had to go to the ER??
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13 responses
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
24 Sep 09
i ahve a three year old son and lucky me for he does not put anything inside his mouth just food or his fingers har har har. there are kids who really put a lot of things inside their mouth that can cost the parents to rush their children at the ER. i have a cousin who swallowed a coin maybe he taught he is a piggy bank har har har.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
24 Sep 09
har har har, i dont know how much did he saved i hope he saved more than they spend at the hospital. we were to young back then, and we laugh at him when he was rushed at the hospital. he gets angry to us when we bring that topic on gatherings. har har har
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
24 Sep 09
My sister in law when she was a toddler ended up in the emergency room because she had stuck several buttons up her nose. The doctor had to painstakingly remove them one by one; there were around a dozen buttons up there which I found hard to believe at first but my mother in law always swore that it was true! It’s amazing what kids swallow or like my sister in law stick up their nose!

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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
24 Sep 09
A dozen buttons?! WOW!! I bet that Dr. didn't want to see any little ones for a while after that! Do you know how long it took to get them all out? I wonder how they knew that all of them were out?!
Can you imagine a little kid talking with their nose plugged up with buttons?! muhme, i dot som butens up muh nohse! 
Can you imagine a little kid talking with their nose plugged up with buttons?! muhme, i dot som butens up muh nohse! 
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
24 Sep 09
I don't know how long it took for the buttons to come out or how big they were, this happened years ago before I was on the scene of course. I still can't believe it was that many buttons but my mother in law always swore that it was! I would imagine it took the doctor quite a while!

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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
12 Oct 09
Oh the poor little girl! The only thing that any of my kids swallowed was too much medicine. When my son was 2, he was on liquid medicine for his asthma. It tasted really good and he loved to take it. One day when I was giving Kristen a bath (she was only 3 months old at the time) He shoved a chair from the dining room table over to the cabinet. Climbed up and stood on the countertop and got his medicine off the top shelf. By the time I got into the kitchen: he'd drunk 3/4 of the big bottle.
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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
5 Nov 09
My daughter did the same thing, she was about 3 years old, she got into the Flintstones vitamins up above the cupboard and ate almost all of them! I called poison control center right away and they said not to worry much about it.
She thought they tasted so good that it was candy.

@prashanthalva (2272)
• India
24 Sep 09
Oh! This IS Quite A Story I Admit .. Must Have Been A Harrowing Time For the Parents .. But, How Could She Eat A Bear, How Did It Enter Her Mouth .. I Am Wondering .. My Kids Haven't Done Anything Like That .. The Younger One Is Busy Trying To Do Some Stuff But She's Always Under the Watchful Eye Of Her Parents ..
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
24 Sep 09
I thought one of my sons had swallowed batteries once. It was scary--I could not find the batteries my husband told me he had set down on the coffee table and to top it off, I'd let the gas get low in the car and it was 20 miles to the ER.
Turned out he hadn't swallowed them, they'd rolled off the table and way under the couch so I couldn't see them when I looked and my husband got angry later and told me I was overprotective. Better safe than sorry, I say. And I never let my gas tank go below 1/4 full ever again!
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@gracefuldove (1668)
• Malaysia
26 Sep 09
I thought there are laws outlawing such minute toys for babies and small kids being sold. I think the seller should e contacted. There must be a warning on the box of the toys that children of a certain age cannot play with such toys because of the possibility of being swallowed or being chokeable! No, my kid almost swallowed o na sweet. We got to slap his back and shoulder to dislodged it!
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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I'm not sure if we have those laws in place here or not, but I do know that if I take a little one to McDonalds or somewhere that has kids meals, I get them the "under 3" toys that are one or two big pieces. Toys or not, I know they say that if something can fit in a shot glass, a small child can choke on it.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
24 Sep 09
I don't have kids, but I have heard of things like this happening. Just how big or small was the little teddybear? I bet that was definitely an interesting x-ray to see. LOL I wonder what happened to the little thing, after they got it out of the kid? LOL
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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
24 Sep 09
The teddy bear was about the size of a quarter. If it was my kid I would have wanted to keep the x ray!! I'm not sure, they took the little girl and parents in a room and they all came out with silly looking smiles on their faces, so apparently they didn't keep her over night for surgery!

@williamjisir (22819)
• China
13 Oct 09
Hello mzz. It is too dangerous for the little kid to have swallowed the little plastic Teddy Bear. Little kids sometimes do this without their sense of its danger. Parents have to be careful with those tiny things to be played with by their kids for fear that something dangerous might happen.
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@barbiejune (125)
• Philippines
25 Sep 09
I feel bad for the parents of the cutie :( I just hope that this won't happen to my nephews and my niece.
Although I would not lie that this case is pretty funny. I think Teddy just wanted to be alone for a while (laughing). But I do hope the doctors get little Teddy out of cutie's tummy without both of them getting hurt... :)
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@haiershen (1080)
• China
14 Oct 09
oh,it is too dangerour to swallow tiny thing for little children,they are very curious and very interested in all of things which are around them,but they could not know clearly which one is for eating,and which one is for planing.it is very tired to take care of little children.good luck and have a nice day!
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@happy6162 (3001)
• United States
24 Sep 09
No my son did not swallow anything that I had to take him to the ER. He never put anything in his mouth unless it was food. As far as I know my granddaughter never had to go to ER because she swallow something. When I watched her when she was younger I did have to keep an eye on her because she like to put things in her mouth. It is scary when something like this happen. Hope the little girl is fine.
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