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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It WILL pass through normally once it has actually gone into the stomach.
If the coin has been inhaled, in which case your son would be having breathing difficulties, you would NEED to go to A&E.
Personally I would only look for my engagement ring or wedding ring, coins are not that valuable to me.
It is a sensible shape so not likely get stuck anywhere, but I should still look to make sure.
I can remember a hospital stay because I had swallowed a hair grip. Many trips to x-ray to chart it's progress. They were just about to operate because it was stuck when nature took it's course and a jubillant nurse brought me the evidence (to my disgust).
I was young enough to still be sleeping in a cot, but I can remember doing it. Mummy had pinned my curl without biting the clip (to open it I suppose) and I thought I ought to do it for her.
Then there was the time I got a gooseberry stuck up my nose. It was a nice feeling, sucking it up, blowing it down. Then it was stuck. Hours in casualty, then a general anesthetic, because I would keep still enough.
thanks guys, i've left itovernight anyway and had kept checking him for his breathing.
i don't want to upset him by taking him to hospital if at all possible, he was only in there for an operation two weeks ago which he's only just over.
For piece of mind I will check his stools for the next few days, if nothing happens then i'll take it further, how's that sound??
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