Jun 7, 2025 · Digestion time varies for each individual. It also depends on what kind of food and how much food you've eaten. When you eat, digestive fluids and movement in the stomach break down …

May 14, 2025 · Although chewing gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, it generally isn't harmful if swallowed. Folklore suggests that swallowed gum sits in your stomach for seven years …

Oct 12, 2023 · Sometimes, you may see undigested food fragments in stool. This usually is high-fiber vegetable matter, which usually isn't broken down and absorbed in your digestive tract. At times, …

Jun 28, 2025 · Rumination syndrome is a condition in which someone repeatedly regurgitates undigested or partially digested food from the stomach. The regurgitated food is then chewed again …

Gastroparesis is a condition in which the muscles in the stomach don't move food as they should for it to be digested. Most often, muscles contract to send food through the digestive tract. But with …

Dec 7, 2023 · Swallowed blood, as from a nosebleed or forceful coughing, may cause bloody vomit, but truly vomiting blood usually means something more serious and requires immediate medical …

Aug 19, 2025 · Find out about the low-glycemic index diet — an eating plan based on how food affects blood sugar levels.

Slowed growth. Loss of appetite and poor absorption of digested food put children with ascariasis at risk of not getting enough nutrition. And that can slow growth. Intestine blockage and tearing. A mass of …

Jan 31, 2023 · Flaxseed is commonly used to improve digestive health or relieve constipation. Flaxseed may also help lower total blood cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol …

Jul 3, 2025 · Is it indigestion or something else? Find out about causes, symptoms and treatment for this common digestive condition.