Nose blocked for 44 years: Man just discovers the cause after sneezing it out

The man Steve Easton suffered from blocked nose for 44 years Put it on hay fever only to sneeze out a toy dart which got stuck in his nose when he was only 7 at the age of 51. Read the full story after the cut.

A man who regularly suffered a blocked nose feels like a right sucker after he sneezed out the cause - a toy dart stuck up his nostril for 44 years.

Stunned Steve Easton, 51, often had a case of the sniffles or a headache and put it down to hay fever.

But his nasal passages are now clear for the first time since he was a young boy after one big blow out last week cleared the problem.

Steve Easton at 7

 He did a massive sneeze and out flew the sucker tip of a toy dart - which had been up his nose since he was a boy.

Steve says the mildly decomposed sucker has been lodged in his nasal cavity since the 1970s.

He told his mum Pat, now 77, he was amazed to find that his parents had taken him to hospital after they thought he inhaled the dart - aged seven.