If in the throat, examine and remove with the finger. If it has gone into
the stomach, give plenty of dry food, such as bread, potatoes, but do not
give an emetic or cathartic. An infant should have its usual food. A
cathartic would hurry the foreign body too rapidly through the intestines,
and in this way do harm. In the usual way it becomes coated with fecal
matter and usually passes the intestines without causing any injury.
What shall I do if it is in the ears? If you can easily remove it with
your fingers or small hair pin or crochet hook, do it. If not, take the
baby to a physician. If it is a corn, bean or pea, do not wet it, or it
will swell and become larger.
What if it is in the nostril? Place baby upon the table with its face
toward a good light and use a hair pin bent right and pass this slowly and
carefully behind the object, and pull slowly forward; or compress the
empty nostril and have the child blow the nose strongly. If not removed
easily, see a physician.