Summary
People in the United States are checking their glass drinking straws after a woman was hospitalized from swallowing a piece of broken glass. A TikTok video warning against using glass straws has gone viral, leading many people to inspect their straws for cracks.
Key Facts
- A woman landed in the hospital after swallowing glass from a broken straw.
- A TikTok user warned others not to use glass straws after her experience, and the video got 1.3 million views.
- The hashtag #glassstraws has nearly 10,000 videos on TikTok and over 50,000 posts on Instagram.
- A content creator named Piper Phillips found a crack in her glass straw after checking her collection.
- Phillips, a regular user of glass straws, plans to switch to using thick metal straws.
- The viral trend of checking glass straws has made some users wary of using them.
