When Your Toddler Swallows a Screw
A fifteen-month-old, a flat-pack wardrobe, and a screw that went missing — that's the scenario a listener wrote in about, and it turns out the answer splits in a way most parents never expect. A screw is a sharp object and gets you to the ER. A small smooth washer gets you a chair and a three-day wait. This episode walks through the actual pediatric foreign-body protocol: the swallow test, the size thresholds, the stool-check guidance, and why emetics, laxatives, and the old meat-tenderizer remedy are all actively discouraged. Then it turns to the third category sitting on every DIY workbench…
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