What is the risk of children swallowing soda can tabs?
Putting something metal into your digestive track is never a good idea. #1 stomach acids are powerful and can begin to eat away at weak metals such as aluminum thereby leaching unwanted chemicals into your system that can take awhile to leave your body. The second issue for kids is that their digestive tracks may not be a great enough size that it can fit a soda tab through all sections. If a piece of metal were to become stuck it would require immediate surgery to remove the soda tab. Soda tabs are also not very sanitary in most cases. One should wash the tops of soda cans before they drink the soda just like fruit. The most critical issue though is that it may not look like it, but soda can tabs do have a few cutting edges on them, and they have many more if bent in any way. This can cause interal bleeding and serious damage to one’s intestines leading to lifetime degistive problems.
