my husband is currently doing a first aid course and whenever the subject of vomiting is discussed they talk about carrots and sweetcorn we are wondering why does vomit always contain what looks like carrots and sweetcorn, what are the reason/causes for this. Sensible answers only please.
2006-09-06 08:19:28 · 15 answers · asked by jlb 5 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
As a nurse I have a lot of vomit and I can tell you that it does not all look it has carrots and or sweet corn in it. Someone is giving you wrong information.
2006-09-06 08:23:41 · answer #1 · answered by BUPPY'S MEME 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are a combination of stomach lining and bile, also as the body cannot fully digest actual carrot and sweetcorn so they can actually be real carrot and sweetcorn chunks. I teach first aid in schools to kids as well as young people of an evening. When we are setting up scenes for training especially disaster preparedness we use chicken soup with carrot and sweetcorn for scenario work.
2006-09-06 15:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by Emma O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The instructors are acting unprofessional and stupid. All vomit does not look like carrots and corn. When was the last time you vomited? Did it look like carrots and corn? No, probally just whatever you have eaten in the past few hours.
2006-09-06 15:32:04 · answer #3 · answered by diturtlelady2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the food that you eat will lost it color once it is in your stomach, and the intestine will digest the food to what looks like carrots and sweetcorn. so the one that is vomited looks like carrots and sweet corn. this color is the one that is being absorb to be classified as vitamins and minerals. so it is in the juice form. its like when you blend the food and beverages you consume the result is whats looks like carrots and sweetcorn .
Once the food that looks like carrots and sweetcorn is being absorb its contents and its nutrition's it will go to deeper intestine and will change color to what looks like sausages and peanut butter.
2006-09-06 15:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The carrots are actually stomach lining the sweetcorn is bile. Gross but true.
2006-09-06 15:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The carrot looking bit are actually food (mainly meat and high starch foods like bread,pasta and potatoes) that have been coloured orange by the bile in your stomach.
2006-09-06 15:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by Becky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"carrots" are stomach lining .it's a lining that the acidic content of stomach has eroded away during vomiting.
2006-09-06 15:25:20 · answer #7 · answered by ilovedragonflies6 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know of no reason other than the possibility that the patient had eaten them. Corn is difficult for humans to digest because we lack an enzyme called cellulase, but I don't know about carrots.
I have taken those classes and, In my experience, those guys are probably goofing around.
2006-09-06 15:26:12 · answer #8 · answered by Jeff 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont know about the carrots, however sweet corn cannot be digested by the stomach, it even ends up in your poo!
2006-09-06 15:23:03 · answer #9 · answered by budhha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is because the human digestive system can not break down the endosperum.(the outside shell of corn, ect.)
2006-09-06 15:27:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋