what happens when you swallow gum?
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nothing bad. it just goes thru your system, nothing to worry about if thats why your asking. If your asking for a detailed thing on how it goes thru your system I dont know that.
1037382
You shed skin cells constantly.  The ones on your tongue, you probably swallowed them.
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When cyanide has been eaten it may produce a bitter, pungent, burning taste in the mouth and sometimes numbness and tightness in the throat and stiffness in the lower jaw. Salivation, nausea and vomiting often follows and an odour of bitter almonds may be on the breath or vomit.
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Im curious why you are asking in the first place. Im hoping you arent getting caught up in that whole I need to starve myself to be beautiful deal. \n\ncalories are units of energy, needed for life. Without them life is not possible, period. \n\nWhen you chew your food, your saliva mixes with that food to digest it. Saliva is full of enzymes needed for proper digestion. So in essence , when chewing your food you are indeed deriving some caloric intake from it when you swallow your saliva, but not much. \n\nSo I suppose the proper answer would be no, you are not getting much caloric intake from chewing alone. \n\nBut trust me, your body will pay for it.
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Gum is eliminated as human waste in the same way — and at the same rate — as any other swallowed matter. Granted, it comes out the far end relatively unchanged by the trip, but it does come out on schedule.
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well, chewing gum aids in stress relief, as the chomping down on it relieves tension in the jaw area, kinda  like when you are tense or angry and you flex your jaw muscles , or grit your teeth.
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He heh, that made me laugh. Good question! I don't know, but I guess that the air has to go somewhere! I do know that swallowing too much air can make you feel bloated, so I would suppose it only has two ways to go, either as a burp or a fart!
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Your trachea closes off your lungs when you swallow anything, so the food or liquid does not enter into your lungs and kill you.\nI hate when it doesn't work and i choke on water...gag
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If you swallow chewing gum, it gets tangled up with your intestines and kills you. Age 4, I swallowed some chewing gum on the way home from school, got home and sat down, patiently waiting to die. Soon got bored with it tho. Went outside and pretended to be Spiderman instead.
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most probably your problem is called gingivitis bleeding is one parameter of gum deaseas and also color of your gum ...\nyou had better visit your dentist for professional cleaning which is usually solved gingivitis problem in that visit after cleaning your gum can be healthy by itself \nbut if you are late to visit your dentist  you may lost your teeth because of gum deaseas
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ha ha ha.. 7 hrs? Even something as durable and tough as chewing gum will start getting digested after such a long time! After all, digestion does not start in your stomach but in your mouth with enzymes that break down carb-chains into smaller carb-pieces... That goes for chewing gum as well!
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Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
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There is a fleshy flap-like structure called epiglottis that is situated in the throat, behind the tongue, at the entrance to the larynx, that is, at the point where the larynx and trachea (conduct leading to the lungs) and the esophagus (conduct leading to the stomach) meet. The epiglottis works as a valve that covers the entrance to the lungs while food is passing down the pharynx and into the digestive system; it's a safety mechanism to ensure that food particles don't damage the delicate respiratory organs. \nSo while we swallow (deglutition is the technical name for swallowing), we cannot breathe (=we're in apnea), because the entrance to the trachea is closed. \n\nThis is a diagram showing the position of the epiglottis:\nhttp://www.emedicinehealth.com/images/4453/4453-4468-10013-23657.jpg\nand here's an animation showing the right path for food (green) and the wrong path that can make one choke (red):\nhttp://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/epiglottis.gif
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it definitely goes through your digestive system.  the 7 year thing is a myth.  the stomach acids get rid of the gum.  if there's anything left over, then it just goes where all the leftover waste that isn't put in the blood goes....the toilet.
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Chewing gum is not an alternative to eating. chewing gum triggers the body to produce digestive enzymes which with no food in the stomach can cause ulcers.Secondly alot of people confuse thirst with hunger pangs, so try drinking an eight oz. glass of water if it has only been 1-2 hours since your last full meal.
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Yes it does, because your body thinks that you are eating and it creates acids to digest the food. But, if there is no food there and you are only chewing gum the acid burns through your stomach creating ulcers.
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Teeth ... try chewing before swallowing!!!