Frosted Mini Wheats Recall

My daughter, only 17, eats those daily and she had eaten an entire box when I got a notice about the recall. I got a notice well over a week ago so the recall has been public for a while.

Go ahead and call your Dr., especially if it makes you feel better.

I personally did not worry about it and I informed my daughter to be careful just in case we had one of the boxes. We did look at the cereal prior to eating the next box. I buy it 3-4 boxes at a time. Chances are very slim that you had a bad box.

Keep in mind, they recall tons of product and only a select few are contaminated. Kindof like looking for a golden ticket in a candy bar.., or picking the mega lotto numbers perfectly.

Best wishes with your pregnancy

My kids ate almost an entire box before I had heard about the recall. This was over a week ago and they are just fine.

I'm sure you would already know if you had ingested any metal and I bet the number of boxes that actually did have anything in them was very, very small. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

Break out a magnet and see what you find.

If nothing...don't worry about it.

Who knows what all we eat and don't know about it boxes, cans and packages. It's only metal. :-) Seriously I wouldn't worry since you already ate it and seem okay but ask your doctor if it makes you feel better. I would wonder how small the fragments are and if they can get into other parts of our bodies so maybe you can get an answer from the doctor.

I really think you would know by now if you had swallowed metal!!

Take what's left of your box of cereal, bring it back to the store and let them know about the recall. Have them replace that box of cereal.

Call your OB to reassure yourself, but also call the cereal company and let them know that you'd like more details. I see no reason to freak frick out. Stressing out over this is more harmful to the baby than anything else. That's so counterproductive, don't you think?

Think this through. The recalls don't say that it's actually in every box. It's a safety measure so that someone doesn't accidentally eat metal fragments and hold the company liable because t hey can't pinpoint which boxes actually have the metal... they just know which batch the fragments fell into.

Next, realize that you would likely know if you were eating metal... you'd feel it on your teeth and break a tooth.

Even if you did swallow metal chunks without realizing it, your body can't digest it. It would pass through you undigested in a bowel movement. Your doctor would probably not want to do any unnecessary tests to see if it's in your digestive tract because those tests would be more harmful to the baby than if you swallowed a piece of metal that's going to get passed through you anyway.

I would think that the higher risk is to breaking a tooth than choking or leeching to the baby. Because even if you managed to actually digest a piece of metal, your placenta and uterus and umbilical create quite an amazing system there to protect your baby from harmful toxins.

You would know. All is fine but run it by your OB if you are still worried!

Congrats!

Nah, but your colon was probably scraped clean. ;)

Well now you're going to have me checking MY box of mini-wheats... UGHHH... lol. More likely than not, you're okay. They have to recall every box in the batch since they have no idea where the fragments may be.

i put it in a separate cupboard and i plan on checkign it out and probably eating it myself but not letting the kids --just in case, but i figure, either you'll see the metal or it probably won't be that big a deal.