FOREIGN BODIES LODGED IN THE NOSE
Children often in their play will place such foreign bodies as peas, beans, buttons, beads and other small objects in their noses. These set up a mechanical irritation and produce swelling of the mucous membrane and often pain. If the object remains for any length of time there is likely to be a profuse discharge of a mucopurulent character. If there is such a discharge from only one, nostril special attention should be given to determine the presence of any foreign body and if there be one the child should be taken to a surgeon at once. If the discharge continues following the removal it will be due to a subluxation at M.C.P., which is interfering with the transmission of mental impulses preventing normal adaptation and reparation taking place. This should be adjusted. However, if there are no subluxations the injury which was done by the mechanical obstruction will be repaired in a short time.