If you’ve swallowed a small amount of paper used to wrap food, you likely have nothing to worry about. Paper is wood pulp, which the human body cannot digest; it’ll just get turned into mush and come out the other end, so to speak.
Also, can a baby get sick from eating paper?
“The biggest risk to eating something like paper is the risk of the child choking on the paper,” continues Dr. Tien. “If the child did not have a gagging or choking episode, does not have persistent coughing or difficulty breathing after eating the paper, this is nothing to worry about.
Beside this, why do I want to eat toilet paper? Xylophagia is a condition involving the consumption of paper and form of eating disorder known as pica. Pica is an unusual craving for ingestion of either edible or inedible substances.