My toddler likes sticking things up her nose – my mom hack saved us a trip to urgent care, it worked so well
A TODDLER mom said she avoided the costs of an urgent care visit thanks to a simple hack she found online.
After her daughter stuck a piece of food up her own nose, she took it upon herself to get it out.
TikToker and self-proclaimed “scrunchy toddler mom” Amanda Schwartz (@amandaschwartz730) wants her fellow parents to know how simple it can be to dislodge a foreign object that your child stuck in their nose.
“This mom hack saved me and my toddler a trip to urgent care last week, and if you have not heard this, you need to listen,” she said in the video.
As many curious little ones do, her daughter stuck something in her nose while enjoying a slice of pizza.
“I grab a flashlight, look up her nose, and there is something in there from her pizza.”
While at first Amanda planned to get a pair of tweezers, lie her daughter down, and try to pull the food out, she had second thoughts about that method.
“I thought, ‘Hm. I better not do this. I don’t want to shove it further up her nose because I don’t know how big this is.’”
That’s when she discovered the useful hack online.
“I tried it and it worked immediately. You need to do this.”
Begin by using one of your fingers to shut the nostril that does not have the food in it, then blow into your child’s mouth.
“The air is going to go up and shoot the food, or the pebble, or whatever it is, out of the nostril that it’s stuck in.”
Amanda said she wishes she took video footage to prove how well it worked.
“It took two tries because it partially came out the first time and I couldn’t quite grab it, then it shot out the second time. It was a big hunk of cheese.”
Knowing how well the trick worked, when her daughter did the same thing two days later, Amanda was back at it with successful results.
Viewers were thankful for the tip, with many saying they’ve already done it themselves.
“TikTok university at it again,” one person wrote.
“I’ve been doing this for years! Works so well!” added another.