If a patient came into an ER with a nosebleed and a foreign object in his nose what steps would be taken?

Question: What specific tests would be done to find out what the person had up their nose, if they didn't know themselves, and if this were a foreign object, ie a piece of chalk or an pencil eraser, what procedures would be done to remove it?

Answers:
A doctor would use a nasal speculum, similiar to the one they use to look inside your ear, to look into the nose for the foreign object. The only other test that may need to be done to look for the object is an x-ray, and this is unlikely. Once the object is found, a medical tool similiar to a long pair of tweezers would be used to removed the object. A topical numbing solution may be applied to to inside of the nose prior to removal. Worst case scenario, if the doctor was unable to remove it, the may need to give the patient light sedation in order to be able to travel further into the nose without the patient feeling or remembering it. Then the bleeding would be stopped by applying pressure to the nose or cotton "rhino rockets" inside the nose. This is done after the removal of the object, so that removing the object doesn't distrub any blood clots that may have formed on their own. Foreign objects in the nose can cause serious infections and need to be reomoved.

Other Answers:
x-ray possibly, or they would just take a light and shine it up there, if it is bleeding though it could be something sharp and they don't want to just pull it out so they could possible operate to dislodge it, if it is just a eraser or something, they get some pliers and reach up there and pull that sucker out..it aint fun though

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well if it was all the way in there then they would surgically remove it. but if its stickin out they will just pull it out.

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