The safe and timely removal of foreign bodies ensures good patient outcomes and limits complications.

It is important that a high level of clinical suspicion is maintained when paediatric patients present with a vague history or symptoms that may represent airway foreign bodies.

This article presents a standardised approach for aural and nasal foreign body retrieval, addressing challenges of identifying patients requiring specialist referral.

A boy aged one year and seven months was brought by his mother to the general practice clinic with a three-month history of recurrent wheezing, especially when active.