[HN Gopher] What happens if you swallow gum?
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What happens if you swallow gum?
Author : gnabgib
Score : 39 points
Date : 2024-06-17 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| glonq wrote:
| Raise your hand if you read the topic wrong the first time.
| 7bit wrote:
| I read "a gun" and was wondering if it's really that many
| people that would warrant writing an article about it.
| smusamashah wrote:
| I read it as "a gun" in hindsight. Head to reread because
| that didn't make sense.
| mkmk wrote:
| I'm not sure why, but this makes me think of the time before
| ubiquitous internet, when the answers to questions like this one
| were much harder to come by.
| ljlolel wrote:
| Ditto
| furyofantares wrote:
| What I did when I was a kid was swallow every gumball in a
| carton of gumballs to prove that they couldn't possibly be
| staying in my stomach for 7 years because nothing else would be
| getting through.
| gmfawcett wrote:
| Yes, although the New York Public Library has had you covered
| since the 1960's: https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-
| librarys-little-kn...
| JohnMakin wrote:
| It's always been amazing to me that in the post-internet, pre-
| enshittification era of the Information age that people could go
| around confidently spouting bullshit facts like "gum stays in
| your body for 7 years" when a few swipes of a thumb can tell
| anyone with an internet connection otherwise.
|
| Nowadays this doesn't hold as true, because search results /
| LLM's tend to give you the information it thinks that you want
| rather than what is actually the result. Have seen a lot of
| people getting into dumb, easily disprovable arguments and using
| a copy pasted google summary as evidence to whatever absurd claim
| they are making.
| jiveturkey wrote:
| um why don't they answer the real question: what happens if you
| swallow _bubble_ gum?! 12-year old me needs to know.
| gamache wrote:
| Nothing, really. It's food-grade plastic and it will come out the
| other end.
|
| Now, what happens if you seal high-pressure hydraulic oil systems
| with it? Let's find out!
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RYVSmuOmc
| metadat wrote:
| Why is the pressure gauge full of liquid? (Presumably water?
| but why / how?)
|
| Quite the talker there :)
|
| Edit: Got it Shog9, thanks!
| Shog9 wrote:
| Probably not water. Purpose is to dampen vibration, making
| the needle easier to read and possibly protecting the
| mechanism a bit. https://tameson.com/pages/liquid-filled-
| pressure-gauge
| giantg2 wrote:
| What if it's chicle, does it differ?
| jrh3 wrote:
| My child went through a phase of swallowing a bunch of gum. He
| got appendicitis. It might have been a coincidence. The article
| does not mention appendicitis but some of the symptoms are the
| same as intestinal blockage.
| mikeyinternews wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbg0ZBXnuZE
| smusamashah wrote:
| Try eating a chocolate while chewing bubble gum. The gum will
| soon dissolve / break into tiny threads/pieces. It might be rough
| experience and you may feel like spitting it out.
|
| Happened to me by accident as a kid and I remember asking some
| cousins to do the same and they experienced the same thing.
| Unless gums are made differently, it should still work.
| m463 wrote:
| Mixing peanut butter and gum.
|
| As a matter of fact, it is a perfect solution for getting out
| gum stuck in your hair.
|
| It just dissolves.
|
| Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager
| working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a
| styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it
| wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
| brij0102 wrote:
| But now you have peanut butter hair!
| xattt wrote:
| My co-workers once told me their experience about caring for
| an older epileptic patient. Many patients with epilepsy
| continue to take the same meds for decades if the meds work
| for them, which means you'll encounter some ancient drugs.
|
| This patient was ordered chloral hydrate, which is given in
| liquid form. One of the younger nurses went to give them med
| in a styrofoam cup, only be shocked that the cup had melted.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| Acetone works great too. It's very useful for getting rid of
| styrofoam from packing because you can reduce several cubic
| feet of styrofoam to a brick 1/100th the size and then throw
| that away instead.
| serf wrote:
| you can sorta-kinda do that with anything with a high fat
| content.
|
| the fat interacts with the gum base and emulsifiers. the fat
| also coats the components in a way that reduces likelihood of
| re-amalgamation.
| giantg2 wrote:
| With the new gums being synthetic plastic and waxes, I wonder
| what effects there might be from things like microplastics.
| pc2slow4webpack wrote:
| 1/d * 1wk seems like a low threshold for problems
| carabiner wrote:
| Some day I hope they will research how it feels to chew 5 gum.
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