This Woman Spiked Her Family’s Milk with Dead Skin Shavings from Her Feet

Put your food down for a sec, especially if there’s dairy in it. Really, we’re warning you.

A woman in Maryland was arrested last week for putting dead skin shavings from her feet into her family’s milk. That’s right—she put skin from her feet into their milk…and they drank it.

Sarah P. Schrock was arrested and charged with poisoning and contaminating food, three counts of assault, and failure to comply with a peace order, according to Southern Maryland Newspapers Online. She was caught when her family members began choking and coughed up what looked like dead skin.

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Family member Jessica Whitney Hurry said in court papers that Sarah, who has diabetes, has “trays in her room with the same kind of dead skin shavings that had come off of her feet.” For the record, Sarah denies having anything to do with it.

Sarah isn’t the first person to (allegedly) put something gross in other people’s food. A woman was caught on video last year (photo below), squirting her breast milk into her office’s milk carton, a college student in Michigan was busted in 2012 for putting bleach in her roommate’s iced tea, and a slew of waiters have admitted to spitting in people’s food. But this is the first we’ve heard of foot shavings.

While there’s nothing appetizing about ingesting someone’s dead foot skin, can you actually get sick from it? Unfortunately yes, experts say, and the largest problem is bacterial.

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“There could be anything on your feet—literally, anything,” says Dana Cohen, M.D., an internist practicing in New York City. If any kind of bacteria is on someone’s foot and then gets into your food, it can make its way into your stomach and make you sick.

(Would you want peeling skin from someone’s foot in your next glass of milk?)

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Cohen says fecal matter is one of the biggest concerns, especially in warmer weather when a person may be walking outside barefoot and pick up traces of dog poop on their feet. That could then cause diarrhea, vomiting, or worse, she says.

Certified nutritionist and board-certified family physician James Pinckney II, M.D., says people would particularly need to be wary of MRSA, a largely drug-resistant bacteria that can cause a host of infections. Pinckney says it’s also possible that a person could develop an infection from pseudomonas, a bacteria that’s common among people with diabetes like Sarah. “It can cause a gastrointestinal infection, but it’s pretty rare,” he says.

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While all of this is possible, Pinckney says it’s more likely that nothing would happen. “Dust is comprised of 99 percent dead skin cells,” he points out. “It’s probably fairly harmless.”

Moral of the story? Yes, it’s completely and utterly disgusting, but you’re probably going to be okay if someone’s dead skin makes its way into your food.