Late night pregnancy food question...help me where google failed!

[Kreeblim]

This may or may not be too stupid to post, but I'm going to do it anyway. Please forgive me

I'm about 12 weeks pregnant and got a strong salt craving that could only be fixed with corn chips or fries. I did what I thought was the "healthier" option at 1am and told DH to bypass McDonalds for the 24hour drug store for chips that I could eat with my home made guacamole and salsa I knew I wouldn't be getting organic or healthy chips at this time of night, but I resolved to plan better next time.

About half way through the plate of chips/cheese/salsa, I ate a chip with an EXTREME taste of mold. It looked fine, and wasn't stale at all, and the bag says they are good until March 2011. I had DH taste it just in case it was some pregnancy smell thing, and he spit it out immediately because it tasted so strongly of mold.

So, anyway, google came up with nothing about corn chip mold, but some scary stuff about mold in general. I ate half a plate of these and my husband had finished his. Are we in any danger? Should I call the company? Is there any special threat from mold while pregnant?

Forgive me for seeming paranoid...I get this way when pregnant

[SpuglyRoo]

My feelings are that you are probably fine. Especially since you only noticed one chip being off. I'd contact the company to find out if there was anything wrong with a batch and to get a refund. And try to eat things full of Vitamin C and Antioxidants perhaps. Try not to stress, a lot of times stress is more harmful than whatever we were stressing about.

[Kristin0105]

Depending on the type of mold it could be completely harmless, think hard and soft cheeses that a prized because of their mold content. I wouldn't worry about it. We are a hardy species that has probably eaten a lot of mold in our time.