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Eating Melted Plastic Lid By Accident

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Dr. Deepak Sundriyal MD

Hi, what are the effects of drinking or eating melted plastic by accident? Will this cause liver or organ damage? Does it cause cancer or affect your brain? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Deepak Sundriyal ( Oncologist)
Dr. Divakara MD

realise that the lid had some melted corner. I panicked and splashed some water on the stove to wipe the melted plastic off the stove. There were bitter fumes that I accidentally inhaled.... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Divakara ( Internal Medicine Specialist)
Dr. M Y Shareef MD

any melted plastic on the food, or taste anything different. Will we take a chance on eating this food? ...I placed a foil baking dish full of casserole with a plastic lid made for it in... View answer

Answered by : Dr. M Y Shareef ( General Surgeon)
Dr.  T Shobha Deepak MD

I just finished eating dinner and I may have ingested melted plastic. The oven was smoking badly ... plastic in it. I looked in the oven and there was a melted Tupperware bowl that... View answer

Answered by : Dr. T Shobha Deepak ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Phanindra Dulipala MD

the cover on. am I in danger for eating vaporized melted plastic that may be cooked into the artichoke? ...My wife made me steamed artichoke. She put this silicone plastic type steamer in a... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Phanindra Dulipala ( Diabetologist)

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Dr.  Akhtarhusian Ghausi MD

I just ate some soup and found a piece of plastic from the container...not the hard plastic lid ... eaten some melted plastic...is this anything to be concerned about? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Akhtarhusian Ghausi ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Saumya Mittal MD

I put a metal tin pan in the oven and left the plastic lid on by accident, then looked in the oven to check on the food and realized what i did. the plastic shrunk up, but did not seem to... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Saumya Mittal ( Diabetologist)
Dr. Ashok Kumar Dash MD

I made a sausage casserole and melted the plastic parts of the pan lid in the oven. I took it off to continue cooking but after eating a potion found a small amount of plastic, stretched... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ashok Kumar Dash ( Ophthalmologist)
Dr.   Parth Goswami MD

Hi made a casserole in a disposable casserole foil dish without realizing that the plastic lid was underneath the foil portion. We ate the casserole and when I was cleaning up found the plastic... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Parth Goswami ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Sushama Suram MD

and by accident left an old cooking plastic spoon inside the boiling pit for about 20 minutes. When I took the spoon out it wasn t melted but it was very very soft and malleable. I have... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sushama Suram ( Ophthalmologist)