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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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What to do when your stomach hurts?
If you're sure that this pain isn't major and it's not a medical emergency, here are some tips you can take to reduce or eliminate the pain.
1) Go to the bathroom. Even if you don't have the 'urge', your body knows that when you're there, it's time for it to get rid of what it no longer needs. Your stomachache could be anything from constipation to gas. Even if it's not, having too much food in your stomach does cause stomach pain, and going to the restroom can help speed up the digestion process. Even if you don't think it's working, repeat this step several times every fifteen minutes or so.
2) Lay down. While this might seem cliche, resting is a good way for your body to focus on the pain and help reduce it.
3) Lower stress. If there's something that's not very active that you enjoy, like reading, watching television, or playing a computer game, do it. It lowers stress, which could be causing tension and pain, and it will give you a chance to forget about the pain in your stomach.
4) If you need to vomit, vomit. If your body wants to expel something from your stomach, let it do so. If you're pretty sure that you're going to vomit, hang out by a toilet or other area where you will be able to vomit and easily clean up the mess. Stay away from smells that might upset your stomach further, like cooking food. If your trash bag has a scent, it may upset your stomach more.
Be sure that your pain isn't a medical emergency, and if the pain doesn't go away for a long period of time, get medical help.
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Besides your urinary system what other organs in your body help in excretion?
The respiratory system (lungs) allows the expulsion of gases and other wastes through respiration, the gastrointestinal system and intestines prepare and move the solid wastes, the liver filters toxins from the blood for excretion, much like the kidneys do to put wastes in the urinary system, the circulatory system (blood) moves the wastes from other parts of the body to the kidneys and liver to be prepared for excretion and the integumentary system (skin) excretes metabolic wastes in sweat and some chemical wastes can be also be excreted in tears.
Why does the respiratory system need the digestive system?
The respiratory system consists of living tissue that requires food to survive. The digestive system processes the food you eat and turns it into a form that can be carried to the cells of the respiratory system so they can be well nourished and keep the respiratory system functioning properly..
Honey is so easy to digest because?
Honey is a natural, unprocessed sugar which makes it easier for the body to break down.
Is the colon part of the digestive system?
Yes, the colon is part of the digestive system. It's also called the large intestine.
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What tissue type moves food from mouth to stomach?
Muscle Tissue does jobs such as moving food from our mouth to our stomach.Source: my science class xP
Can you taste more when you breathe in while eating?
If you are breath through your nose, then probably yes. Taste is related to smell and smelling is through your nose, obviously. This is why when you smell food, is also probably tastes that way.
Is alchol digested the same way as food is digested in the body?
no, since alcohol is a different substance, it is not digested in exactly the same way. your liver is the organ which assists in breaking down alcohol. this is why alcoholics have severe liver problems and why alcohol can be so dangerous (it can lead to liver failure). alcohol does, however, go through your intestines just like anything else.
What is the role of the mouth and it's parts in digestion?
The mouth is the first place digestion takes place.
Your teeth break down the food into smaller pieces, while this is happening your saliva (secreted from the salivary glands) starts to chemically break down the food. Saliva is composed of 98% water and 2% electrolytes, mucus, antibacterial compounds, and various enzymes.
These enzymes in the saliva break down some of the starch and fat in the food at the molecular level.
Saliva also breaks down food caught in the teeth, protecting them from bacteria that cause decay.
Can a snake fit down a human throat?
Maybe an adult.
Another opinion
Yes, but do not try it! It is dangerous to you as well as the snake. Either one of you may die in the process. The snake will die from being digested, you will die from suffocation if it lodges in your throat and prevents you from breathing.
Are gills part of digestion system in fish?
no,gills was fish's respiratory organ.gills has the capability to observe dissolved oxygen from water.
They might not be able to be broken up while digesting just like the skin of corn. But I have never pooped kiwi seeds so....
What stimulates digestion of food when the body is in a state of rest?
The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the process of digestion. So, when a person is relaxed, unstressed, and even at rest, that is the best time to eat because the body has no other demands on it and can turn on all the processes that involve good digestion. The parasympathetic nervous system is the one that makes you relax, its nickname is the 'rest and digest' system.
Compare mechanical digestive to chemical digestion?
The difference between chemical and mechanical digestion is:
Simple:
Chemical digestion= Process that breaks large food parts into small molecules that can be taken in by cells.
Mechanical digestion= Process of breaking down food into smaller pieces by chewing and smashing.
More advanced:
Mechanical Digestion - Food is crushed and liquefied by the teeth, tongue, and peristaltic contractions (waves of involuntary muscle contraction) of the stomach and small intestine. This creates a greater surface area for the digestive enzymes to work upon.
Chemical Digestion - Many glandular structures, dispersed throughout the body, are involved in breaking food into simple molecules that can be absorbed. In the mouth, the salivary glands produce saliva, which both lubricates food and begins the process of starch digestion. Saliva contains salivary amylase (ptyalin), an enzyme that digests starch to maltose (a disaccharide). As food leaves the mouth, the esophagus conducts it to the stomach via the cardiac sphincter by means of peristaltic waves of smooth muscle contraction.
What is the breaking crushing and mashing of food called?
other type of digestion is
CHEMICAL DIGESTION- chemicals produced by the body breaks food into smaller chemical building blocks.
EX. the starch in the bread is broken down into individual sugar molecules
How lonq does food stay in yhuurr stomach?
this is the rite answer which is 2-4 hours
the other ppl dnt kno wht there tlkn
aboutpoor bby well antiways the answer is
2-4 hours im out =D
What type of energy does talking use?
Talking is powered by chemical energy derived from the food you've eaten.
