By Hoi See Tsao, MD, and Alicia Genisca, MD

CASE

A 2-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency department with a foreign body in his right nostril.

The patient was staying at his father’s house and the father became concerned about a foreign body when the patient suddenly began complaining of right nostril pain and dark brown nasal discharge. The father did not know what foreign body may have been inserted. On the patient’s return to his mother’s house the next day, he was found to also have right nostril swelling. His mother brought him to the emergency department for evaluation. The mother denied the patient having fever, coughing, gagging, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain.