2006-02-28 - 2:04 pm
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The researchers tested 17 gum chewers and 17 matched patients who did not chew gum. All had undergone colon surgery. The group that chewed gum recovered bowel function faster by various measures. On average, they passed gas sooner, had their first bowel movement earlier and felt hungry faster than the control group.
The largest difference between the groups was in the time spent in the hospital, perhaps the most important measure of recovery. The average gum chewer left the hospital in 4.3 days. Those who did not chew stayed for an average of 6.8 days.
Kenneth Waxman, the director of the department of surgical education at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California and the paper's senior author, said that feeding people as soon as possible after surgery could also make the bowel recover, but that it made about a quarter of the patients vomit. But gum chewing had no side effects.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/health/28patt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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