Vomitting

[EcclesCake]

I suspect this isn't an easy to answer to question......

Once you have eaten a meal what is the normal time for it to process through the digestive tract and no longer be vomittable?

And how long is a piece of string?

[boxtops]

Blimey...... if something's disagreed with me, I usually know about it within about an hour.

[Mamyalynne]

Cannot answer specifically but a straight C&P here...


Sqad hates me for those

about six to eight hours
Digestion time varies between individuals and between men and women. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion, absorption of water and, finally, elimination of undigested food.

[Sqad]

Yes...........the "piece of string" sums it up.

The stomach is empty 2 hours after a meal in the NORMAL subject.

Many conditions can make the process ABNORMAL.

I am not sure what you are getting at.

[Mamyalynne]

Mamya runs away...

[wolf63]

mamy - you can run but you can't hide .........

[Mamyalynne]

ssssssssh

[Sqad]

LOL.....naaah! come on back mamya, at least you didn't give a "link."....;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Phew !!

[EcclesCake]

Hmmm.

So after eating a meal five hours ago vomitting that meal is moving towards the abnormal?

[Mamyalynne]

I had no string to measure, so did the next best thing.

[boxtops]

It might not be vomitable but it could still be on a fast track for the loo, if it was iffy..... :-(

[Sqad]

\\\\So after eating a meal five hours ago vomitting that meal is moving towards the abnormal?\\\

Vomiting is abnormal.

[EcclesCake]

Yes, vomiting is abnormal but it seems that in an otherwise healthy person they can eat some meals with out issue yet others are vomited.

Could something which their system finds indigestible be rejected and consequently vomited rather than fully entering into the digestive system?

[anneasquith]

high fat food ?

[Mosaic]

Eccles, not everything eaten goes through the system at the same speed. So if something has been particularly tough to break down in the stomach, it may end up being vomited several hours after. In may case, the tougher bits of broccoli can linger longer and so if I were to cough it up it would be present.

[Sqad]

\\\Yes, vomiting is abnormal but it seems that in an otherwise healthy person they can eat some meals with out issue yet others are vomited. \\

Do they? If they are healthy, then they don't vomit.

\\\Could something which their system finds indigestible be rejected and consequently vomited rather than fully entering into the digestive system?\\

If they vomit, the "stuff" is already in the digestive system.

Eccles........get to the point.

[EcclesCake]

Some meals seem to be digested without issue but others are not and vomiting occurs. A far as can be determined wheat is a common factor.

It just struck me as odd that five hours after eating the person in question was throwing up as it seemed a long time after the meal but they often feel that their meal 'sits' rather than transiting.

[Tilly2]

Thanks for that, mosaic. Is that why vomit always has carrots in it?

[Sqad]

Eccles.........right.

There are certain conditions in which food may be retained in the stomach (Gastroparesis) and these may include drugs, anti depressives, uncontrolled diabetes and food allergy e.g wheat.

Does that help?