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If you can swallow glass shards without feeling any pain, they will pass through the intestinal track just fine.

Source: ER doctor when I checked myself in after discovering I accidentally ate glass. He was right. Nothing happened. I was fine.

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I’d be interested to know how you ate glass without realizing it until it was too late.

I poured soup into a glass bowl that contained many shards from a chipped rim that I failed to notice. I had consumed nearly the entire bowl when I bit into the largest shard. I strained the remaining soup for glass, found more shards, but many were unaccounted for. Only possibility left was that I had slurped them down

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