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Should I Be Concerned About The Melted Plastic In Food?
Hello Doctor, From about an hour ago I was eating hot bread delivered from a restaurant and found a solid melted and deformed plastic thing inside the rolled bread, it looks it was some kind of plastic spoon that was mistakenly threw into the oven, problem is I ate about 3/4 of the bread before seeing it, I tried to vomit to avoid any comsequences but couldn t honestly, should I be Concerened? Thank you.
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Tue, 12 May 2015
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Have you been passing loose stools or feeling dizzy? If not then there shouldn't be any problem, even if its plastic. Take a laxative so you pass this in the stool soon. If you do you should be okay.
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Hi, welcome to HCM. Thanks for asking your query at this forum.
We understand your concern. I have read your question carefully and understood it. I will try my best to answer it.
As you told, you have unknowingly eaten a piece of melted plastic and now you are worried about its ill effects. I acknowledge you concern as plastic is not an inert substance and it may contain certain harmful hydrocarbons. But since it has been burnt in oven, it might have lost its most of the activity in the form of vaporization of hydrocarbons. So you may consider it nearly inert. Secondly the quantity of exposure is also very small (may be few grams). certainly it will not be digested in your GI tract and it will come in stool as it is.
Plastic will not cause as much harm as constant worry may do. So quit thinking about this.
I suggest you not to worry much and relax, as by this time it might have been already expelled out of body.
I hope it answers your query. I wish you all the best.
We understand your concern. I have read your question carefully and understood it. I will try my best to answer it.
As you told, you have unknowingly eaten a piece of melted plastic and now you are worried about its ill effects. I acknowledge you concern as plastic is not an inert substance and it may contain certain harmful hydrocarbons. But since it has been burnt in oven, it might have lost its most of the activity in the form of vaporization of hydrocarbons. So you may consider it nearly inert. Secondly the quantity of exposure is also very small (may be few grams). certainly it will not be digested in your GI tract and it will come in stool as it is.
Plastic will not cause as much harm as constant worry may do. So quit thinking about this.
I suggest you not to worry much and relax, as by this time it might have been already expelled out of body.
I hope it answers your query. I wish you all the best.
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