Silica gel stuck in Macbook pro headphone jack

The silica gel packet in my laptop bag exploded (it's a new bag, and I had no idea the packet was in there) and now I've got a bead jammed in headphone ports.
Any suggestions will be appreciated .

Hurray issue got solved
Initially I took my MacBook pro to some Apple store but it could not help ,the Apple executive there said that they tried to remove the silica gel but failed to do so . Instead the executive insisted me to replace entire logic board and it will cost around 35,000 rs INR(550 $)  I was totally I mean *** .
Then latter I took it  to another Apple authorized service center and those guys managed to take the silica gel out
Thanks all for your quick response.

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