I have loads of PCOS symptoms too and my endocrinologist can't answer this. Whenever I drink from a can, the drink goes flat within minutes of taking my first sip. Any ideas?
2006-08-07 03:21:38 · 9 answers · asked by bumbliki007 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I'm being general here. 1- medications your on.
2- high pH levels
and in any person who keeps soda in there mouth for a brief period of time will also go flat due to enzymes.
To know If your condition plays a role or not i would have to examine you and run pH levels as well as other test regarding your blood.
2006-08-08 15:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Be warned that these are only hypotheses, and I have no idea if either is true or not, or even if I have the explanations right. I have PCOS too, and I've never heard of this happening, but I have a few ideas.
My first idea is based in the fact that diabetics have unusually high amounts of sugar in their saliva. If you have insulin resistance/impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes (both of which are linked to PCOS), you might have unusually sugary saliva. Maybe the extra sugar would somehow cause soda to go flat. I'll venture into a little chemistry to try to explain that (possibly incorrectly). Soda is already supersaturated with carbon dioxide. The introduction of any new object or solute, such as additional sugar, can provide nucleation sites (places where bubbles can form) that cause the carbon dioxide to quickly bubble out of the solution. Normally this happens very slowly in soda, but introducing a new solute into the solution can speed the process. (This is basically what happens when people drop Mentos into soda to cause it to spew quickly out of the bottle). I'm guessing that liquid sugar in the form of glucose-rich saliva might do the same thing, on a smaller scale. Hence, if your saliva has a lot of sugar in it and it mixes with soda, it might allow the carbon dioxide to leave the soda more quickly than normal, resulting in flat soda.
The second idea is that hormones do affect saliva--that's why there are tests that allow women to predict their ovulation based on their saliva. Maybe something about your hormones is changing your saliva in such a way that it reacts with soda. Since any new solute can provide nucleation sites, it may even react in the same way as would sugar.
Of course, it's also possible that this has nothing to do with PCOS at all. I don't know if any of that explains your problem, but I enjoyed the challenge!
2006-08-09 06:44:11 · answer #2 · answered by purplerose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soda is too warm or you're shaking it. Carbonic acid is very unstable - the slightest jostle will cause it to break down into carbon dioxide gas, which is what causes those bubbles. It'll do this spontaneously, and the only reason sodas stay carbonated is because they're under pressure. I highly doubt your saliva has anything to do with it.
2006-08-07 11:24:56 · answer #3 · answered by your_body_is_a_battleground 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know what your ovaries are doing in your mouth - they dont secrete saliva or make the enzymes in saliva that hydrolyse carbohydrates.
Just a bad batch of cans. Unless you are spitting into the can, then the dissolved CO2 will react but not completely. Adding sugar etc would do this, but explosively.
2006-08-07 05:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-10 03:25:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's PCOS?? It might help us answer if you spelled it out.
2006-08-07 03:29:15 · answer #6 · answered by wasabi_luvva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pH - high or low.
Salty saliva. (Happens when you eat crisps etc).?
Medication you're on?
I don't know for sure though.
2006-08-07 03:28:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called enzymes.
2006-08-07 07:39:42 · answer #8 · answered by legalbambino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see your doctor it could very serious illness
2006-08-07 07:07:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋