I swallowed a chewingum. What should I do. What is the solution of it. please plz please reply fast. It has passed more than 18 hour.
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No need to worry. However, your digestive system has another way to deal with things you swallow. After all, we eat lots of things that we are unable to fully digest.� The gut just keeps moving them along until they make it all the way through the intestines and come out the other end. So gum usually ends up in your lavatory one to two days later. Even though gum is sticky, it is usually no match for the power of your gut. Our saliva will make an attempt at digesting chewing gum as soon as we put it in our mouths. It might penetrate the shell and sweeteners, but the much of gum's base ingredients are indigestible. It's then down to our stomach muscles - which contract and relax, much like the way an earthworm moves - to slowly force the things that we swallow through our systems. The system can still get gummed up though. Swallowing a huge wad of gum or swallowing many small pieces of gum in a short time can cause a blockage within the digestive system - most often in children, who have a smaller-diameter digestive tract than adults - but this is extremely rare.
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