Medical experts say spoon was precariously lodged, with even minor movements posing a risk of intestinal perforation or ...

Reduce the amount of ultra-processed food you eat. Microplastics have been found in ultra-processed foods due to the ...

A Chinese man unknowingly carried a 15-centimetre ceramic spoon in his duodenum for six months after a boozy night in ...

A Chinese man carried a spoon in his intestine for months, thinking he’d only dreamt swallowing it while drunk in Thailand.

A Chinese man unknowingly harbored a 15cm coffee spoon in his duodenum for six months after a drunken incident in Thailand ...

A 29-year-old Chinese man had a 15cm ceramic spoon removed from his intestine six months after accidentally swallowing it while intoxicated in Thailand. He experienced abdominal pain and sought ...

While travelling in Thailand, the man had been drinking and attempted to use a coffee spoon in his hotel room to induce vomiting. The spoon was inadvertently pulled from his hand by a force in his ...

In the most extreme case, the researchers estimated the brain was 0.48% plastic, meaning the particles added up to a couple of grams — the weight of a typical plastic spoon.

It’s probably a good idea to ditch your black plastic utensils, since they may expose you to harmful chemicals. Here’s what to use instead.

Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery. You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney ...

Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery. You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.