Don’t give kids metal straws

[Anonymous]

https://www.today.com/health/health/metal-straw-punctures-throat-artery-brain-rcna45635

So so scary. We don’t have any of these but if I did I would toss them immediately.

[Anonymous]

Wow, so scary, glad he’s ok! No metal straws here.

[Anonymous]

What is point to metal straws? I only need a straw when I’m walking around drinking something, but I have always been wary of a metal spear in my mouth.

[Anonymous]

That’s mind-blowing. What amazing work by the doctors. I picked up some silicone straws to have reusable ones. Mainly because I liked the colors - never thought about the danger from metal ones. How horrific.

[Anonymous]

A remember hearing a story a few years back about how an adult woman tripped and punctured her eye with one. I believe it also entered her brain and she died.

I got silicone ones that open up to wash them and they’re so much better. Safer and they get cleaner.

[Anonymous]

Really? The article even says this was a freak accident.

[Anonymous]

No metal straws for us!

[Anonymous]

I don’t suffer from anxiety, so I will continue to use my metal straws.

[Anonymous]

We also use silicone for this reason. Some accidents in life are unavoidable but this is such an easy switch.

[Anonymous]

No way I’ll ever use one of those! Horrific!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t suffer from anxiety, so I will continue to use my metal straws.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t suffer from anxiety, so I will continue to use my metal straws.

Same.

Yea, things are just so ridiculous until they happen to you or yours. Amirite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.today.com/health/health/metal-straw-punctures-throat-artery-brain-rcna45635

So so scary. We don’t have any of these but if I did I would toss them immediately.

What kind of an idiot would give a metal straw to a child or bedridden person! Paper straws are available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is point to metal straws? I only need a straw when I’m walking around drinking something, but I have always been wary of a metal spear in my mouth. [/quote

Straws are supposed to be bad for birds.

What an unforeseen hazard though!

[Anonymous]

Yikes. We use reusable plastic straws. Still rigid but not metal. I wonder if they could cause the same time of injury? Freak accident so I’m not getting rid of them, just curious.