My wife likes to swallow her gum after chewing it. I think she's crazy. What do you think?
2006-07-10 13:14:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
ONE TIME MY LITTLE SISTER WAS ABOUT 18 MONTHS OLD AND ATE A WHOLE BAG OF GUM, ALL SHE DID WAS CRAP OUT A HUGE CHEWED BUBBLE GUM LOOKING TURD, IT LOOKED JUST LIKE A TURD BUT WAS ALL RAINBOW SWIRLEY LOOKING
2006-07-10 13:22:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It goes right through your system, just like everything else you eat. That saying you might've heard that it takes seven years to digest gum is just an old wives tale. I asked my doctor several years ago the same question. The whole seven year thing was made up to try and discourage kids from swallowing their gum instead of throwing it away.
It won't hurt your wife.
2006-07-10 13:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
People that think that gum takes 7 years to digest in your stomach have bought into an old wive's tale .. a.k.a. a total load of crap.
Gum is made of latexes (eg. leche, caspi, sorva, nispero, tunu, jelutong, or chicle, which is still commercially produced), paraffin wax or beeswax, polyethylene, polyvinyl acetate, stearic acid, and various natural gums. These will digest in your stomach like any other natural substance. What does not get digested will be excreted (pooped) just like anything else that enters you stomach.
2006-07-10 13:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
i'm hoping no longer something undesirable takes position because I swalled a piece some weeks in the past. I fell asleep on the settee, and that i awoke and ought to have sworn that i became chewing gum in the previous I fell asleep. i'm anxious it ought to clog something in me.
2016-11-06 04:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gum takes 7 years to digest in the human stomach.
2006-07-10 13:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by retrodragonfly 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Gum stays in your intestines and it rots for years.
2006-07-10 13:18:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will remain in stomach for quite some time.
2006-07-10 23:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by johnny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gets digested with everything else you eat.
2006-07-10 13:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by www.ayntk.blogspot.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stays in your body for seven years.
2006-07-10 13:29:15 · answer #9 · answered by Kamaria A 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
some say it gets stuck in your body and doesn't come out until like 10yrs later
2006-07-10 13:19:00 · answer #10 · answered by christian_chick66 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋