Toy Dart Sneezed Out From A Man's Nose After 44 Years

A man from Camberley in Surrey who suffered from headache and sniffles for 44 years, sneezed out a toy dart from his nostril, which was believed to have caused his years-long symptoms. His parents told him that he was brought to the hospital when he was seven years old due to the inhalation incident but doctors said it may just have been a mistake.

Steve Easton, now 51, recently threw a sneezing fit whilst working on his computer, when a sucker tip of a toy dart came flying right from his nose. He said it was about a size of a penny. “I started a sneezing fit and it came out of my left nostril,” said Easton. “I thought, ‘What’s this? Where the hell has this come from?’”

He told his mother about the incident and was surprised to know that his parents did suspect him to have inhaled the toy dart. His mother told him that he was taken to the hospital to clear their doubt.

When Steve was seven, his parents, now 77, noticed that one of the rubber tips from his dart gun was missing. “I took him to the hospital and they spent a lot of time looking for it but in the end they said perhaps it was a mistake,” recalled Mrs. Easton. “I knew it wasn’t and it’s always worried me and now it has suddenly shot out. We are all shocked.”

For the first time in 44 years, Steve’s nasal passages are now clear. What seemed like a bad and prolonged case of hay fever turned out to be due to a foreign body inhalation. Nonetheless, Steve said that he had not encountered other health problems in his life aside from the sniffles and headaches. He reported the incident to his doctor, who was equally stunned with the news. The doctor confirmed that no harm had been done. Steve said nothing’s really changed after the toy was removed and he even wondered if there is anything else in there.

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