A lot of times I worry about swallowing small pieces of plastic that breaks off from food packaging or from medicine packaging like Benadryl pills. I've heard that microwaving your food in plastic can leach toxic chemicals into your food. Well a stomach is hot and full of acid so if you swallowed bits of plastic wouldn't that also leach chemicals?
2007-07-07 09:24:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
as long as it is VERY small peices.
2007-07-07 09:30:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peel the paper off the back of the benadryls stop biting them open LOL.......yeah and some plastics are not safe for microwaving but just so long as you use the kind for microwaves you should be ok, and don't let plastic wrap touch the food in the micro. But I don't think your stomach acids and heat is gonna melt plastic. You will pass it. If it comes out at the wrong angle you will know it LOL. If you seriously take into account every time someone says something is dangerous you'd be only drinking water and probably eating boogers.
2007-07-07 09:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by rob lou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as you may breathe and swallow, this is going to be nice. That soreness you sense is the two from the plastic scratching against your throat once you swallowed or it may nonetheless be on your throat section. attempt eating the interior a bite of bread and spot if that enables. yet once you sense that it remains interior the throat section, don't have no longer something yet do see a physician.
2016-10-01 02:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by millie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were to sieve your poop--not something I'd recommend, BTW--you'd see that the plastic passes unchanged through your digestive system.
There's a lot of pseudoscience about toxins in daily life. I tend to disbelieve stories about this or that common thing (like nuking food on or under plastic) unleashing toxins on my unsuspecting body, or causing cancer, or leading to infertility, yada-yada-yada.
Unless and until there's an empirical study, you're safe to shrug and carry on as you have been, eating as many little bits of plastic as your haste allows.
2007-07-07 09:35:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So as not to worry, be more careful when removing plastic from packaging.
2007-07-07 09:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not safe at all. avoid getting it in your mouth. it can get stuck in you throat and you could choke if its that celefain (sp?) stuff. if its that hard stuff, it could damadge a lot of things in your digestive tract. but i aint sure about the chemical thing sorry.
2007-07-07 09:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by bambi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you swalled enough, you could shrink wrap your poo stool sample for the Doc's office.
2007-07-07 16:24:50 · answer #7 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plastic is a a carcinogen. Do not swallow it.
2007-07-07 09:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
just avoid it...
2007-07-07 09:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋