A woman has warned against drinking out of glass straws after accidentally swallowing a shard of glass, which left her in the hospital.

In the past, Breanne O'Brien would regularly drink her water out of a cup with a glass straw. It’s a popular trend to elevate a simple everyday drink while remaining environmentally sustainable. Yet O’Brien, 35, of Orange County, California, never imagined that habit would leave her in the hospital earlier this month.

On November 22, she was drinking her water as usual when she felt something peculiar. She told Newsweek that she noticed “a chunk of something” in her throat, but she couldn’t explain it because there wasn’t anything in her drink.

After looking down at her drink and the glass straw, it quickly became clear.

“I was confused because I was

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