Has anyone faced major health complications from drinking water or any other beverage from plastic bottles?

[sheikalana]

Plastic consumption has been a hot topic in the last few years. Things that we always done like buying water in plastic bottles, storing food in plastic containers etc etc etc are now considered harmful for our health. I personally never met anyone whose health has been affected by plastic but every day when I open any social media there's always someone mentioning how terrible plastic is for all of us. If plastic is considered that bad now means it's been bad for us from the beginning. Why starting this narrative now?

[NamerOfStars]

Because it's an election year, and the only parts of the world that don't follow the US line on medical policy are Russia (reluctant to rely on a potential enemy), China (reluctant to rely on a current enemy), and Israel (reluctant to rely on any power in the universe outside of itself).

Back in the 80's, the medical fear du jour was saturated fats: the correlation of higher intake levels and heart attacks was seen as a causation, because nobody was willing to question the FDA after the Thalidomide debacle. So people turned away from using animal fats, and turned to using those derived from processing vegetable oils, in particular those referred to as "trans fats". I trust you remember well enough to know how THAT turned out? After trans fats failed to catch on as a bogeyman, the target changed to sugar (they rarely dip into the same pool back to back; there were a few between saturated and trans fats). That didn't work either, so now it's plastics; as an added bonus, it's used as a rallying cry against oil production, under the assumption that a modern society can sustain itself without cheap oil (it can't; not until we have alternate energy sources that are all decades AT BEST away from being practical replacements).

Now, this isn't to say that it's healthy to have plastics circulating through the environment and our bloodstreams at the current level they are; it's not. But that's the third and fourth parts of the plan: it not only gives media sources clickbait to draw people in (here's how plastic is killing you!) but it undermines criticism of the standard operations of the people and organizations promoting the status quo (if the people decrying them are just engaging in hyperbolic histrionics, then clearly there isn't an actual problem!).

So no, the odds are no one has suffered major health complications from drinking or eating from plastic containers- but quite a few have had it contribute.

[sheikalana]

Thank you for replying.

[DryGermanGuy]

That’s simply a question of continuous modern research. At one time people didn’t know smoking was dangerous. At one time people didn’t know radiation was dangerous. At one time people didn’t know asbestos was dangerous. Back when plastic was seen as the magic solution to everything and anything, who would ever thought of things like nanoplastic pollution?
With regard to drinking from plastic bottles, I always avoided having them sitting in heat or sunlight, because I noticed the water then tasted different. Different plastic types react differently, though.

[sage2021]

One thing about plastic drinking bottles is when you leave them in the sun or heat. Lots of people leave their bottle of water on the front seat of the cat with the sun shining on it. Then they drink it, maybe later when it's cooler.

Having drinks that are left in the sun get's the plastic too hot and the chemicals that are in the plastic leach into the drink, then you drink it. It doesn't cause a reaction right away but it becomes like a cancer causing agent.
The famous singer Sheryl Crow had breast cancer. When she was asked what she would do differently, she said she would never drink out of a plastic bottle that was sitting in the hot sun.

[sheikalana]

I never do this and don't understand why people would do that either.

[sage2021]

Thank you 😊 for the MHO

[Wiredone]

My wife had a miscarriage and our first son was born with a heart defect from my wife drinking so much tap water when she was pregnant. When she was pregnant with our last child she drank nothing but bottle water and he came out perfectly fine

[sheikalana]

So, those issues were not caused by plastic consumption.

[Wiredone]

No they weren't. Things worked out better by drinking water from plastic bottles

[exitseven]

No, but I do not drink bottled water very often. We have excellent drinking water where I live and I use a stainless steel bottle at work.

[Iron_Man]

I drink Zephyrhills

[Iron_Man]

Good spring water and never had a problem

[sheikalana]

I always have bottled water in my house too. We don't drink tap water.

[Iron_Man]

Good 👍

[jahaims]

The population as a whole has lower testosterone from phthalates