Repeated samples of gastric juice were guaiac negative. The stools were guaiac positive. Because of partial pyloric obstruction, the patient was placed on continuous gastric suction; 5 to 10 ...

The smell, sight, or even thought of food is enough to increase salivation and get your gastric juices pumping. If you have ever watched a dog eyeing a steak dinner, you can literally see the drool ...

Drinking water at the right time can promote satiety and ease digestion. Experts on when and how much water to drink before, ...

Yet we remain completely unaware. Carried from the nose to the throat, snot mixes with saliva before ending up in the stomach ...

People talk a lot about when it's best to drink water, especially around meals. Some say it's not good to drink water during ...

This is because the flow of gastric juices increases during the night to digest complex proteins as we sleep. If the timing between two consecutive meals is not maintained properly, this could lead to ...

Chewing leaves food small enough for the gastric juices in the stomach to further degrade it and reduce it to microscopic size. This allows the nutrients and fluids to be absorbed into your ...

E. Patrick, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Kansas, giving details of a series of practical tests to determine whether the hydrate of alumina is dissolved by the gastric juice.

Antacids and anticholinergic drugs may suppress the volume and acidity of gastric juices. If bleeding does not recur the tube is removed. The tube should be transected before it is removed.

If you drink high-calorie liquids such as soda or fruit juice, you may not lose weight. In a gastric bypass, the part of the intestine where many minerals and vitamins are most easily absorbed is ...

Several studies have demonstrated that the short-term weight loss achieved by Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is greater than that achieved by laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. This notion is ...