How do doctors take a rock out of your nose?

Question: My daughter's friend at daycare stuck a rock up his nose and they took him to the drs. Now my daughter is asking me how they took it out, but honestly I have no idea how they do it.

Answer: I usually used blunt tipped Adson forceps, another name for an expensive tweezer. If I couldn't get the jaws of the forceps around the pebble, I next tried to suction it out using a soft tip connected to a suction pump. If that didn't work, I dried the pebble and naris (nostril) as well as I could, then put a dab of super glue on the wooden end of a cotton swab and glued it to the pebble. When that failed, I went into the next room out of earshot of mother and child, uttered a few expletives, and sent the patient to the ENT up the street. Seriously, you don't want to push the pebble farther up the nose. You only make removal more difficult, and you could conceivably push it into the nasopharynx where it could drop into the windpipe, leading to dangerous aspiration.

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