Org Seed in Nose - HELP!!

[Guest guest]

My 3 year old son put a white watermelon seed (from a seedless (!) organic

watermelon) in his nose in late July. After a trip to the ER and later to a

pediatric ENT, no seed or symptoms of the seed still being in the nose were

found. However, in mid-October he suddenly experienced low oxygen,

wheezing, shortness of breath and had to be rushed to a hospital for

Children where he was given inhaled and oral steroids and kept over night.

The ER doctor asked if he had put anything in his nose, but after xraying

his lungs and not seeing anything there, they assumed that the seed wasn't

the cause of the problem. We were told that he probably had some kind of

virus although no one in our household ever got this " virus. " (Our child has

been healthy all his life - vegan, sugarless diet. He was breast-fed for 2

years, had a perfect conception, delivery, etc., has no family history of

asthma, and never has had medicine, allergies, or any other health issues

before in his life other than a cold.)

 

To make a long story short, after more visits to the ER, his pediatrician,

pulmonary specialist and allergist (who said he's allergic to dust mites and

we've since then have tried to allergy-proof my son's bedroom), my son who

still has lots of energy and acts and looks normal, still experiences the

wheezing and congestion (I took him off all steroids a couple of weeks ago

because they seemed to make him wheeze worse.)

 

I have learned from my own research that the seed (which will not appear on

an x-ray) could be lodged in his lungs and might be causing him this

distress. None of the doctors that I've taken him to haven't had much

expertise with this possibility.

 

Has anyone out there had a similar experience or know of a possible source

(person, hospital, doctor, internet, book, etc.) for getting a " second

opinion " about this.

 

Thanks!!!

[Guest guest]

If your son has an inhaled seed in his lung irritating the area round

it, the wheezing sounds would be localized to the one lung, rather than

'bilateral' in both lungs. If the wheezing is in both sides, it probably

isn't the seed. Soft white seeds can be broken down by the body; it may

take months of mild infection symptoms, but it would eventually go away.

An inhaled object could cause many of the symptoms you describe. As a

child, my brother had chewing gum stuck up in his nose for years before

a pediatrician decided to poke around to see what was causing chronic

sinus infections.

 

But. Asthma symptoms are showing up in a lot more kids these days than

ever before, even among families with no history of it, or in one child

and not others. Sometimes stress is a factor in making things worse.

 

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