Digestive system

[YarisSi]

How long is it meant to take for food to pass through your body. I've just managed sweetcorn in about 2 hours. Is this a miracle/act of god or am I just a freak?

Or maybe its normal?

[Lois-PIE]

It varies depending on what already in your system. average is around 8-12 hours I THINK.

[king arthur]

Are you sure those aren't just left over from the last time you ate sweetcorn?

[Lois-PIE]

You need to chew better!

[Gaffer]

Depends. I have Crohns Disease and when I am unwell it can take a grand total of 3 minutes from eating a cheese tostie to me running to the loo.

Other wise its normally a couple of hours for me. I have a special card and key that lets me into all the toilets in the UK.

Claire

[YarisSi]

No haven't had sweet corn in anything for weeks if not months.

Claire - hope things are going well for you. Just been looking at it and dosen't sound nice.

>> Edited by YarisSi on Saturday 11th December 23:17

[Gaffer]

Thanks

I am surviving, just lets say eating curry can be interesting.

I can clear a room in 2 minutes flat. Biological weapons have nothing on me when I get going.

Claire

[Flat in Fifth]

I think it also depends to some extent upon what your digestive system is used to.
For example for me anything too fatty and...... wham! As gaffer says clear top deck of a bus in 20 seconds...

[wedg1e]

Errrr... I seem to have a similar problem with red meat. Am I ill?



Ah who cares. I reckon that once you know you're ill, you blame every slight incidence of not feeling right, on your illness.
For all I know I have cancer of the bits, but I'm not about to ask anyone. Otherwise I'll blemish my attendance record at work... 5 days sick in 11 years... and counting...

Edit: punctuation schmunctuation, I say. Look, I've had a couple of Guinness, I'm anybody's...

>> Edited by wedg1e on Sunday 12th December 00:50

[EmmaP]

Ian, not a good idea to joke about such things. Men are notoriously bad about going to see the doctor. My mother begged my father for six months. When he eventually went things had taken hold. Thankfully his iron will has pulled him through.

A friend's wife begged him to see a doctor for months. It wasn't until he was flat out on the floor that he allowed her to call for an ambulance. He has a brain tumour. He is still with us, against all odds, fighting and living every day to the full.

>> Edited by EmmaP on Sunday 12th December 02:23

[wedg1e]

EmmaP said:

Ian, not a good idea to joke about such things. Men are notoriously bad about going to see the doctor. My mother begged my father for six months. When he eventually went things had taken hold. Thankfully his iron will has pulled him through. A friend's wife begged him to see a doctor for months. It wasn't until he was flat out on the floor that he allowed her to call for an ambulance. He has a brain tumour. He is still with us, against all odds, fighting and living every day to the full. >> Edited by EmmaP on Sunday 12th December 02:23

Who wants to live forever?
I drive a convertible sports car with no roll cage. On occasion I ride motorcycles. I work with radioactive materials, high voltage electrical equipment and both together in Saudi Arabia: land of the sword, home of the sneer.
It would indeed be ironic to contract something nasty; I have no doubt that this is the most likely way I will go, but I'm not going to worry about it, any more than I'm about to start praying to a god I don't belive in, on the off-chance that when I get to the Pearly Gates, there really IS a Saint Peter....

Thanks for your concern

[groucho]

I think the body has a problem digeting sweetcorn, that's why you can recognise it on the way out. Too much info there.

Grouch.

[968]

Lois-PIE said:

It varies depending on what already in your system. average is around 8-12 hours I THINK.

Yep approximately correct, although anaesthetists ask that people not eat approx 6 to 8 hours prior to an op, to make sure the stomach is empty.....

[alexkp]

968 said:

Lois-PIE said: It varies depending on what already in your system. average is around 8-12 hours I THINK. Yep approximately correct, although anaesthetists ask that people not eat approx 6 to 8 hours prior to an op, to make sure the stomach is empty.....

I thought you did eyes....


Oh, I see, you do "brown eyes" as well...


(So sorry, couldn't resist...)

[968]

anonymous said:

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ho ho ho

We do have to give general anaesthetics to some of our patients, either as a result of the nature of the surgery, or as the patient will be unlikely to keep still if awake.

[Pigeon]

groucho said:

I think the body has a problem digeting sweetcorn, that's why you can recognise it on the way out.

On a related note why does puke always contain diced carrot regardless of what you've eaten?

[lightningghost]

I've just finished digestion in Biology and sweetcorn doesn't take very long to digest because there isn't a lot in it to digest.

[Gaffer]

Pigeon said:

groucho said: I think the body has a problem digeting sweetcorn, that's why you can recognise it on the way out. On a related note why does puke always contain diced carrot regardless of what you've eaten?

I belive that the lining of your stomach.

Ever since I found out that in films etc when they show people being sick its veg soup I have never been able to eat it.

Claire

[YarisSi]

I hope your joking.

[Lois-PIE]

no its not. Its the way things curdle when being digested I believe. The lining of your stomache comes up looking like brownie red soil. urgh!