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Should I Be Worried For Eating Some Plastic

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Dr. Rajiv K Khandelwal MD

. Now I am worried if the entire meal was microwaved or put in the oven with plastic that melted into my food. I also may be pregnant so I am extremely worried if this could... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rajiv K Khandelwal ( Pediatrician)
Dr. Namala Bharadwaj MD

for three days. Additionally, I may be pregnant. Should I contact our doctors? ... eating them for 3 days, and in cleaning the pan, I discovered that what I... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Namala Bharadwaj ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.     Sonila Borici MD

and I used the oven today. Now that I ate the food I am worried. Would there be any harm in eating a bit of food from an oven that may have some left over fumes from the... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sonila Borici ( Pediatrician)
Dr.  Rakesh Madhyastha MD

I was sous vide some vegetables. After eating them and cleaning my equipment I noticed the plastic from my vacuum sealed bag was melted onto my sous vide heating tool. Should... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha ( Nephrologist)
Dr. Ganesh MD

Hi Doctor, Some days back, a week back after eating an ice cream i noticed a small portion(around 6mm/4mm dimension) of the pink plastic ice cream spoon was missing and very worried if it... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ganesh ( General & Family Physician)

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Dr. Sagar Gopalakrishna MD

. It has been 4 hrs. I think I probably ingested some of the plastic from the spatula, but have no real way of knowing at this point. Should I be worried? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sagar Gopalakrishna ( Dentist)
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. Het Ram Bishnoi MD

this and I don t know if I should have a doctor evaluate me or just take some ibuprofen and be okay ...Today I burned some trash in a metal trash can that had a... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Het Ram Bishnoi ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.   Ivan R. Rommstein MD

have swallowed some of the small sharp pieces of plastic before I realized what I had done. Very small, about and 1/5 of the size of a fingernail, but sharp. Should I be... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ivan R. Rommstein ( General Surgeon)
Dr. Kartik Sood MD

about it. Therefor, when I went to preheat the oven without knowing this I ended up burning the plastic ... dangerous to any substantial extent if they did exist, and is it ok to use the oven I... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kartik Sood ( Pulmonologist)