Child been sucking polyester comforter for years

[VickiKat]

Hi, so I have just stupidly realised that my child’s comforter is polyester, she is now 4 and has sucked the living daylights out of it for 3 years. I am very careful that they eat, use natural products - everywhere on the internet it says polyester causes cancer…..so worried , did your child suck one/are they safe to suck? Thanks for any helpful comments.

The whole selling point of plastics is that they are inert, non-reactive and virtually indestructible. Whilst the individual chemicals that go into making polyester may or may not be carcinogenic (I don’t know) I am sceptical that ingesting something like a finished polyester fabric would have any effect on the body. Surely most of it would come out again, totally undigested.

Thank you, that is really helpful.