Children and even mentally retarded adults have the tendency to have habit of putting Foreign Bodies in their Nose themselves or by others. However treating surgeons are likely to forget nasal packs and splints as well.

1. Foreign Body
Nose
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2. Types
• Organic
• Inorganic
• Iatrogenic
• Pledgets
• Cotton swabs
• splints

4. Clinical Features
• Immediately report
• If noticed
• By himself
• Parents
• Late
• Child
• Iatrogenic
• Mentally retarded

5. Immediate Reporting
• History
• Bleeding
• If attempts at removing

6. Late Reporting
• Discharge
• Unilateral
• Foul smelling
• Blood stained
• Skin infection

7. Diagnosis
• History
• Anterior Rhinoscopy
• Anterior Rhinoscopy after decongestion
• Endoscopy

8. Diagnosis
• History
• Anterior Rhinoscopy
• Anterior Rhinoscopy after decongestion
• Endoscopy
• X- Ray
• CT Scan

9. Treatment
Removal

10. Removal
• Without anaesthesia
• Local anaesthesia
• General anaesthesia
• Ant Rhioscopy
• Endoscopy

13. Methods of Removal
• forceps

14. Methods of removal
• hook

15. KATZ EXTRACTOR

16. INFLATE

17. Complications
•Nasal Infection
•Sinusitis
•Rhinolith - Stone Formation
• over the Foreign Body
•Inhalation into the
• Tracheobroncheal Tree.