Now, before we get started, is it just me or is anyone else a little confused as to why you would use a shard of metal to clean any orifice of the body?
But we'll let this girl off because she's 10, she has youth and curiosity without consequences on her side.
And boy did she learn the hard way because Moumita Let had to undergo surgery to remove the safety pin after it became wedged in an open position inside her nose.
She was taken to hospital in excruciating pain and doctors had to remove the pin through her mouth under general anaesthetic.
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The youngster is said to be making a good recovery after the procedure at a state hospital in Suri, West Bengal, India.
Dr Suvendu Bhattacharya explained how Moumita was brought in by her parents on 8 September.
He said: "The child was brought to our hospital at around 5 pm with severe pain and continuous bleeding from the nose. On examining her, I noticed that the safety pin was open and got lodged inside her nostril.
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"I got her x-ray done, and told the parents that it is a problematic case as the safety pin has got wedged inside the nose.
"I informed them that the pin can be removed only after giving general anesthesia to the patient, and there were chances of injury as the pin wedged inside was causing constant bleeding."
The general anaesthetic could only be administered after six hours of fasting so the procedure could not begin until 10.30pm. As if having a pin stuck up your nose wasn't enough, you then have to starve yourself for it to be removed.
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And because of limited available equipment, Dr Bhattacharya had to use an endoscope and his fingers to manually to locate the safety pin.
"I saw that the pin was wedged behind the middle turbinate of the nose," he explained. "It was impossible to pull it out from the front as the pin was open from inside and would have caused further injury. We had already put a nasal tube to enable her to breathe.
"Besides this, we placed a throat peg so that in case the pin gets dislodged, it did not enter the food pipe or trachea.
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"Then I inserted the endoscope into the nostril and got the pin dislodged pushing into the mouth from it was finally retrieved."
The child, from Gumta village in Birbhun district of West Bengal, has been discharged and is doing fine, he added. Maybe just steer clear of the safety pins.
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