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How do hospitals clean your stomach?

Gastric suction, or stomach pumping, is a procedure your doctor can perform to empty the contents of your stomach quickly during an emergency. It's also known as gastric lavage and nasogastric tube suction.

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What is gastric suction? Gastric suction, or stomach pumping, is a procedure your doctor can perform to empty the contents of your stomach quickly during an emergency. It’s also known as gastric lavage and nasogastric tube suction. When is gastric suction used? Your doctor may order gastric suction if you’ve swallowed poison or overdosed on pills. If you’ve swallowed something poisonous, such as a household chemical, get to the hospital as soon as possible. Gastric suction is most successful if it’s performed within four hours of ingesting a poisonous substance. Once the poison works its way further into your digestive tract, performing this procedure won’t remove it. Your doctor may also order gastric suction after certain surgeries on your abdominal area, such as a gastrectomy. This procedure involves the partial or total removal of your stomach. Gastric suction can help keep your stomach empty while you heal. In this case, you won’t be eating solid foods, so only thin liquids will enter your stomach. A low level of suction will be used to remove the fluids. Your doctor may also use gastric suction to: collect a sample of your stomach acid

relieve pressure on your intestines if they’re blocked

suction out blood if you’ve had a stomach hemorrhage

clean out your stomach if you’re vomiting blood during an upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, which is a procedure in which your doctor inserts a scope down your esophagus to examine your upper GI tract

to safely perform surgery and limit the risk of aspiration pneumonia

to decompress the stomach during assisted ventilation in a hospital setting

How do you prepare for gastric suction? If you’re undergoing gastric suction because of poisoning, drug overdose, or other emergency situations, you won’t have time to prepare for it beforehand. But if your doctor orders gastric suction to collect a sample of your stomach acid for testing, they may ask you to fast or avoid taking certain medications before the procedure. How is gastric suction performed? Before the procedure, your doctor may give you medicine to numb your throat. This will help decrease gagging and irritation. Then, they’ll insert a lubricated tube into your mouth or nose and thread it down through your esophagus into your stomach. Your esophagus is the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach. Your doctor may spray water or saline solution down the tube before applying suction. Saline solution can help protect you against electrolyte imbalances that can occur when your doctor removes fluids from your stomach. They’ll then apply suction to remove your stomach contents. If you have the tube inserted while you’re recovering from abdominal surgery, your doctor will likely leave it in while you heal. A nurse will probably irrigate the tube regularly with saline solution. This helps to keep the tube open and prevent blockages.

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Does cold water burn more fat?

The idea that drinking cold water must burn more calories developed from the belief that our bodies expend energy to warm up. It is true that your body will work to raise its temperature to 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but it will only expend about eight calories to do this.

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Our bodies can burn calories in several ways: basal metabolic rate (BMR), physical activity and digestion. Drinking cold water rather than warm is not one of them. Or, at least cold water doesn’t burn enough calories to be worthy of mentioning. “If your goal is weight loss and burning more calories, I wouldn’t spend time on the temperature of the water, but rather on reducing calories by snacking on fruits instead of cookies,” UAMS Outpatient Dietitian Andrea Tappe says. Drinking a glass of ice water rather than a glass of water at room temperature only burns about eight calories. Your basal metabolic rate, which keeps your organs functioning, burns about 70% of your calories. Physical activity adds about 20% and digestion about 10%. The idea that drinking cold water must burn more calories developed from the belief that our bodies expend energy to warm up. It is true that your body will work to raise its temperature to 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but it will only expend about eight calories to do this. Eight calories is the equivalent of a small pickle. How much water should we drink daily? Tappe says that men should take in about 15 cups and women should take in about 11 cups. “This may seem like a challenge, but remember it includes water from all beverages, even caffeinated.” Are you ready to get healthy? Come see a UAMS primary care provider and get started on the right path. We will provide expert medical guidance for starting and maintaining a healthier lifestyle so that the temperature of your water is the last thing you’ll need to worry about!