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A member asked:
I believe i have swallow peices of an aluminum can lid while opening it some mustve fallen in and i didnt notice until i was almost finished.
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No worries: Everybody accidentally swallows tiny pieces of non-edible materials at one time or another. The pieces just get pooped out the other end. The worse thing that might happen is teeth damage due to chomping down on a hard, non-edible piece such as a tiny pebble, metal fragment, sand, etc... Otherwise, no worries.
Answered 12/5/2020
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