chewing gum and paralysed bowels
- From: "Kath" <kathnews2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:08:57 +1100
I wonder if this would help with bowels paralysed by painkillers?
http://www.theage.com.au/news/health-and-fitness/survey-gives-doctors-plenty-to-chew-over/2006/02/23/1140563871083.html
Survey gives doctors plenty to chew over
Recovery aid... gum helps post-surgery convalescence, a study has found.
February 23, 2006
Chewing gum after intestinal surgery can help reactivate paralysed bowels
and get patients out of the hospital sooner, a study said.
Patients who have abdominal surgery often suffer a slowdown or shutdown of
the bowels called ileus that causes pain, vomiting and abdominal swelling,
and they may not be able to tolerate food or even water, the report
published in the Archives of Surgery said. Study participants had no problem
chewing sugarless gum three times a day.
Chewing stimulates nerves that promote the release of hormones responsible
for activating the gastrointestinal system, wrote study author Rob Schuster,
of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California. Seventeen of 34 patients
who chewed gum beginning a few hours after surgery passed gas several hours
sooner than the half who did not chew, and the gum chewers got out of the
hospital an average of 4.3 days after surgery versus 6.8 days for
non-chewers, reducing costs and lowering the risk of complications. Reported
by Reuters.
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