What to do if a child swallows gum?

It is not uncommon for children to swallow chewing gum nowadays. Children are ignorant and think that chewing gum can be eaten, so they swallow the gum into their stomachs while chewing. Chewing gum may cause the intestines to stick together, which has a great impact on us and will cause us severe stomach pain. Please consult as soon as possible about what to do if a child swallows chewing gum.

It's okay! The main ingredients of chewing gum are non-toxic rubber, sweeteners and flavoring agents!

Besides, chewing gum is soft and won’t hurt your stomach and intestines! It can be excreted with feces in a day or two!

Bubble gum, chewing gum and the like produced in previous years can have harmful effects on the human body if swallowed. However, in recent years, manufacturers generally use gum bases that are soluble in stomach acid, so occasional swallowing will not cause any harm to the body. Of course, this does not mean that you can eat it as a meal. After all, that thing is just useless garbage once it enters your stomach, haha.

Although ingestion is not recommended, xylitol gum is perfectly acceptable to swallow. Don't worry too much. Who hasn't accidentally swallowed gum as a child?

Most of the gum contained in chewing gum is not digested and can be excreted from the body with feces. In addition, you can eat some crude fiber foods to stimulate intestinal peristalsis.

Doctors pointed out that the inner wall of the human stomach and intestine is very smooth and secretes a large amount of mucus, so it is impossible for chewing gum to get stuck. If it cannot be digested after being swallowed into the stomach, it will be automatically excreted without the need for surgery. However, in order to avoid accidents, it is best not to give chewing gum to children, because not only does it have no benefits, but it can also be very troublesome if it is accidentally swallowed into the trachea. In addition, if children keep chewing gum, they will swallow too much air while chewing gum.

The above methods of what to do if a child swallows chewing gum provide us with good guidance and suggestions for solving these situations. We can take some emetic drugs to effectively help us spit out the chewing gum we have eaten, or eat a lot and get the chewing gum out of our body through excretion.