We present our experience in the endoscopic management of 421 children with upper gastrointestinal foreign bodies. Only in the 1% of the cases (5 patients) we had complications who needs surgical intervention. We found a 1.5:1 ratio in male/female and the highest prevalence in the 2 to 5 years group. Most common foreign bodies were coins and small metallic objects (59%) followed by small plastic by objects (35%) and seeds, fish bones and meat in 6%, meat in 6%.