With no stomach and no esophagus, can he...?!
Question: With no stomach and no esophagus, can he!.!.!.!?
I know a guy who survived esophageal cancer and a botched operation, with the end result being no stomach and no esophagus, they had to make a new esophagus out of a piece of his colon!. Well, if he doesn't have a stomach, does that mean he doesn't have a gag reflex!? Does it mean he can't vomit!? How about hunger!? Would he feel hunger pains!? I'm thoroughly curious about how the body reacts to having no stomach, and how different it might feel!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Well I have all my inside parts intact, so this isn't from experience (clearly), but this surgury actually happens alot when people try to kill them selves by drinking chemicals such as bleach or gasoline!. It ruins their insides!. You intestines are what do all the absorbtion of food, so he would just have to eat things in smaller pieces (or blend them first) to have them be disolves!.
He may or may not have a gag reflex!. It depends on where the replacement started!. Some people normally are without a gag reflex anyways!. He would be able to vomit, he just wouldn't be able to force himself to vomit (like stick his finger down his throat), though it wouldn't be very pleasant because he would be forcing it back out of his intenstines!. Wait, but would the intestines contract!? Maybe not, so maybe he can't vomit (can you tell i'm guessing here!?)!.!.!.!. That could be bad for you, because you generally throw up to get stuff out of your system, like food (when you get food poisoning), so he would have no way to get rid of that stuff!.
He wouldn't feel hunger pains the same, like he wouldn't feel an empty stomach!. He'd more feel the lack of energy!. Well, he may still have that empty stomach feeling, but more of a memory of it!. I have been told though that people have to eat much more often when they don't have a stomach, because the stomach kind of slowly feeds food to the intestines, with no stomach, there is no regulation, so everything would go in and through right away, and if there was too much it would pass through indigested!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
He may or may not have a gag reflex!. It depends on where the replacement started!. Some people normally are without a gag reflex anyways!. He would be able to vomit, he just wouldn't be able to force himself to vomit (like stick his finger down his throat), though it wouldn't be very pleasant because he would be forcing it back out of his intenstines!. Wait, but would the intestines contract!? Maybe not, so maybe he can't vomit (can you tell i'm guessing here!?)!.!.!.!. That could be bad for you, because you generally throw up to get stuff out of your system, like food (when you get food poisoning), so he would have no way to get rid of that stuff!.
He wouldn't feel hunger pains the same, like he wouldn't feel an empty stomach!. He'd more feel the lack of energy!. Well, he may still have that empty stomach feeling, but more of a memory of it!. I have been told though that people have to eat much more often when they don't have a stomach, because the stomach kind of slowly feeds food to the intestines, with no stomach, there is no regulation, so everything would go in and through right away, and if there was too much it would pass through indigested!. Www@Answer-Health@Com