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Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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How does the energy in food keep you warm?
The energy in food keeps us warm through the amounts of energy used in absorbtion, digestion, and the distribution of nutrients.This is why food that are harder to digest benifit us like protiens because they have a long acting effect on the body.
How does microvilli help in the digestion of food?
The provide the small intestine with a large surface area, and provides the capillaries close to the surface.
Difference between fungal alpha amylase and beta amylase?
beta hydrolyses the endings of amylopectine or starch to give maltose units, and alpha hydrolyses anywhere in the starch molecule to give 2 polysaccharides
If a membrane-bound sac filled with large molecules of oil is suspended in a beaker of water, water will start to enter the sac. The sac will then swell.
Which digestive enzyme is produced by salivary glands and what does it do?
Amylase is produced in the salivary glands and it hydrolyses (breaks down with the addition of water) starch into maltose.
List in order in which the enzymes start working and where in the digestive system they work?
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What causes intestines to explode and its contents end up in stomach?
It won't reach your intestines in time and it takes a while for the food to be broken down. your stomach holds about 30 ounces of food, at about 120 to 160 ounces the stomach has reached it's mass of capacity. And anything that go further. If all that food would happen to explode, all the bacteria that's in the food is gonna start multiplying is gonna develop something that's called peritonitis. you will have heart attack of kidney failure which will lead to sepsis, shock, and eventually death.
Can you die from bloody vomit?
Yes, if enough blood is bleeding into your stomach or digestive system, and often it does not cause you to vomit until there is a large amount of blood loss. Any time you vomit blood, you should seek immediate medical care.
How are paracitic flukes able to live when they no longer have a well developed digestive system?
They depend on the host organism to digest their food from them.
How does a stomach process food?
Once food enters the stomach through the esophagus, it reaches the stomach, and enzymes like pepsin, chemically break up the food. Then the stomach churns for mechanical digestion, aiding in the break up. The reason the stomach isn't damaged by the acids is because of a lining inside the stomach protecting it. The remains leave for the small intestine after digestion.
What kind of disease can you get in the digestive system?
There are many different diseases that can affect the digestive system. It would be very hard to put together a complete list.
There are diseases that erode the lining of the digestive system. Reflux disease causes stomach acid to splash up to areas that aren't protected against acid, causing them damage and even leading to cancer. There is a bacteria that can live in the stomach or duodenum that erodes the lining, causing ulcers. People can take medicines that keep the stomach from rebuilding its lining. Enough erosion can lead to contents leaking inside the abdomen, which can be deadly.
There are bacteria that can infect the digestive system. There is one that already lives there who is normally kept in check by healthy bacteria. But someone taking antibiotics may kill those healthy bacteria off, letting the unhealthy bacteria grow uncontrollably. Small children and the elderly are particularly subject to this problem, and some can die from this.
There are cancers that can affect the digestive system. Besides the ones caused by chronic damage by erosion, there are ones caused by buildup of toxic chemicals in the intestines. Eating lots of red meat is said to contribute to this.
People who don't eat properly (especially not getting enough fiber) can form hard feces that stretch and tear the intestines in places.
There are immune system diseases which cause the body to attack the digestive system. This can be very miserable.
There are tubes that let digestive juices flow into the digestive system, and these tubes can get plugged up when people eat a poor diet. This can lead to serious problems where the digestive juices start digesting your own body, and this can also lead to a deadly cancer.
There are a lot of diseases that affect the liver. You may or may not consider this part of the digestive system. If you do consider it, it adds a lot of diseases to the list.
When you eat certain foods they are hard going down and then you get hiccups why?
The food may be dry, the bite too large or you may have been talking while trying to swallow. If it is a regular instance, keep a diary of what you were trying to eat, the time and the absence or presence of hiccups. It should help you narrow down the issue. If it doesn't give you a hint, take the diary to your doctor visit.
What does absorption of the digestive system mean?
It means that it involes the movement of nutrients through the wall of your digestive system into your blood. Absorption
How could antibiotics killing bacteria in the large intestine cause vitamin loss and diarrhea?
The antibiotics kill large numbers of the intestine's normal bacteria, and the body tries to counteract the attack by flushing the intestines (diarrhoea). It becomes difficult for the intestines to absorb nutrients properly, and the body loses a lot of water. Once the antibiotics course ends, the surviving bacteria recover and start to multiply until the original balance is restored.
This is a difficult question to answer over the Internet without taking a full history and examination.
It could be due to a number of things, both normal and abnormal.
Well you could have a parisite in your stomach. If I were you, i'd go and get myself checked out to make sure that isn't the case so what I'm saying is you should go see your doctor about this.
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Large intestine reabsorbs water.
Main organelles of intracellular digestion?
In the process of intracellular digestion, lysosomes are the main organelles. Lysosomes contain enzymes that are made by cells, and their primary function is to digest things.
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What should you do if you are addicted to eating toilet paper?
sounds like you are deficient in Iron, I suggest you get a check-up. make sure you tell them about your craving.
Get a psychiatrist as well; there are way too many edible and safe sources of iron for you to behave like that.
Compare mechanical and chemical digestion?
actually the mechanical digestion takes place first in our body that is the whole process of digestion we normally study. where the whole process is of getting things like glucose, minerals, proteins etc..
but the chemical digestion takes place at the cellular level means in the cells that is the break down of glucose in getting energy to work or metabolism of the cells
