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December 24th, 2024

/r/nutrition

1 year ago

Will my son be affected by eating plastic???

I made eggs for me and my son and after making the second noticed that a chunk of the spatula had melted off. I wasn’t sure if had melted off right then and there or if I simply hadn’t noticed it before I started cooking. Since I have GERD, I served my son the second egg that had the potential plastic. He said it tasted extra gooey and starchy, so I guess there was some plastic in there. Will he be okay?

December 24th, 2024

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thee_body_problem

1 year ago

What I'd worry about as a non-medical person is that as the melted plastic cools pieces of it could become sharp, and if any those pieces are big enough they could scratch or injure the gut as they are passing through. Keep an eye out for symptoms like stomach pains or fever in either of you. And maybe eat plenty of bulky fibre foods in the next few days to help flush through any wayward bits. But next time, toss the eggs.

iH8DogsAndHousePets

1 year ago

We constantly eat plastic in this house. Like willy Wonka's chocolate factory chewing on cups. We're fine.

One-Lengthiness-2949

1 year ago

If you're really concerned to relieve your mind you could call poison control, I called them a couple of times when my kids were little, they were at the time very helpful and nice.

Double-Common-7778

1 year ago

Please point me to the original thread?

Foolona_Hill

1 year ago

your title question is too general but the plastic your son ate off the melted spatula will not hurt your kid. It will be excreted. During the particle's journey through the gut, very small amounts will be released and can be resorbed, depending on the type of plastic (PC/PP is less "soluble" than PE, always take the harder plastic). We don't even know how many microplastic particles we consume each day with our food, so...

Trick-Throat2214

1 year ago

You fed plastic to your son on purpose, but would not eat it yourself? That's fucked up.

autonomous-grape

1 year ago

Poor kid.

SerentityM3ow

1 year ago

Lol

LuciusDickusMaximus

1 year ago

I have GERD

Trick-Throat2214

1 year ago

How does eating plastic affect this? Can't find any litterature talking about plastic consumption + GERD. This is a reflux issue, right? So how does eating plastic make that worse? also still fucked up to feed plastic to your Kid. Should have made the Kid a new portion or taken the parent role and eaten "the bad portion" yourself.

[deleted]

1 year ago

Having GERD has nothing to do with you spending 2 minutes to make another egg so your kid doesn’t eat plastic.

What the fuck lmao.

idiotista

1 year ago

What sort of ragebait is this, and what dumb people even answer?

jesse9553

1 year ago

I mean, you kinda did yourself dirty here, didnt you?

xialateek

1 year ago

At this point we’ve all eaten a lot of plastic.

LuciusDickusMaximus

1 year ago

Not me, I really try to avoid it.

xialateek

1 year ago

I mean same but good luck not being full of microplastics if you live on earth.

auntmilky

1 year ago

Of course you don’t, you give it to your kid so he can eat it

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1 year ago

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