Plastic Water Bottles Side Effects: Drinking water from a plastic bottle will quench your thirst, but it will also have a significant effect on the body. The reason for this is that by doing this, a sip of water goes into the body, and along with it, microplastics also reach the body. Microplastics are small pieces of plastic, which are smaller than 5 millimetres. Being plastic, these pieces are not easily digested in the body and start accumulating in the body.
Even though there is no evidence of a direct link between microplastics and serious diseases. But researchers say that its effect is visible on the body after a long time. The main reason for their concern is that chemicals are used in many ways in making plastic. Out of this, there are many such chemicals, which are notorious for giving serious diseases to humans.
WHO also warned
There are many sources of microplastics, including water bottles. There are also microplastics less than 1 millimetre in the bottle, which reach from places like bottle material, and bottle lid. The World Health Organization has also warned that microplastic is a very dangerous thing because it easily reaches the body. Due to this, many serious diseases can occur.
What is the harm to the body?
Microplastics can cause damage to vital organs like the intestines, and liver. Because of this, there is a risk of getting cancer. Compounds such as plasticizers, stabilizers and pigments used in the production of bottles are released by microplastics. These can reach different parts of our body through blood flow.
These chemicals have been linked to health problems such as inflammation, genotoxicity, oxidative stress and damage to the gastrointestinal tract. Chemicals released from bottled water packaging are now known as emerging pollutants and EDS, which can cause cancer and serious developmental health problems.
