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April 22, 1891 52-year-old Stockholm coachman L. swallowed a vial of the prescribed opium tablets. He was found by the homeowner and taken to the hospital, where they inserted a funnel and a long tube through which a huge amount was launched warm water. With each such lavage, the stomach contained everything more and more. It became clear to doctors: the patient gave a leak. Few ended their days in such a sad way. Overload the stomach so that it bursts is not an easy task, for this organ possesses a number of protective reflexes. When the stomach is stretched larger than a certain size thanks to a festive dinner, tasty beer or the efforts of Swedish doctors, special receptors send messenger to the brain. The central government immediately issues a decree that it’s time to stop. At the same time, short-term relaxation of the lower obstructive muscle of the esophagus, which common language is called burping. Same muscle in his the upper part also loosens to release gas and bestow the owner a sense of relief. It’s no secret that few people stops. One continues to absorb food under the influence of stress, and someone just can’t resist the charm of a lime cake. But the body, to its credit, does not give up: pain, nausea and regurgitation (in expensive restaurants called regurgitation). And if u you have a healthy stomach, it will empty long before the critical point. But sometimes this does not work. In the case of L., everything was to blame opium. The patient showed vomiting, but they remained empty threat, Stockholm professor Algot Kay-Aberg wrote autopsy results. The death of the poor put before Swedish medicine an important question about what was the immediate cause of the lethal outcome: the amount of water or the force with which it was pumped. Mr Kay-Aberg wrote to his laboratory thirty orphan corpses and conducted the necessary experiments, having previously set cadavres in that reclining position, in which L. was located. It turned out that in if a person is in a drug stupor and his the body is not able to properly respond to the danger, the stomach breaks after 3-4 liters. If you pump water slowly and carefully, he will withstand 6-7 liters.
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Professional Edun Tim Janus (Eater X, left) capable of
in a matter of minutes, stretch your stomach to Pantagruel sizes. (Photo by AP.)
If a person is fully conscious, he bursts extremely seldom. In 1929, an analysis of sudden breaks without strong exposure and weakness of the stomach itself. It was about fourteen individuals who managed to overeat to death, despite all the protective reactions of the body. The most dangerous the ingredient turned out to be sodium bicarbonate, that is, ordinary food soda. This substance neutralizes stomach acid and leads to the formation of gas, which causes belching. Then duet Miami Dade County Pathologists (Florida, USA) talked about a 31-year-old woman suffering from bulimia, who was found half-naked on the floor of your own kitchen. Of course, dead. In her scary an overstretched stomach found nine-odd liters bad chewed hot dogs, broccoli and breakfast cereal. She lay by locker surrounded by various provisions, broken bottles from under soft drinks, tin can and empty bag for products. The final blow was again dealt by baking soda, half empty whose box was right there. In this case, bloated the stomach was unable to release gas, nor to get rid of excess; instead of this he raised his diaphragm to his lungs and strangled the lady. Maybe, the esophagus was obstructed from the bottom of one of the “hot dogs”. In 1926 year, a certain P. Murfield carried out experiments on corpses, filling their stomachs a couple of liters of a weak solution of hydrochloric acid and adding a little sodium bicarbonate. If you want to know the result, type in a YouTube search for “alka seltzer rocket”. If a woman has swollen stomach, so much so that the belly button turned inside out, then you’re in the vast majority of cases will be right if you assume that she is pregnant. A lady who was delivered around four in the morning to the Royal Hospital of Liverpool (UK) in one of the non the most beautiful days of 1984, was one of those few exceptions. She carried the fruit of a long dinner: a kilogram kidneys, the same amount of liver and steak, two eggs, a pound of cheese, a quarter a kilo of mushrooms, a kilogram of carrots, a head of cauliflower, two good loaves of bread, ten peaches, four pears, two apples, four banana, per kilogram of plums and grapes, as well as two glasses of milk. Almost 9 kg of food – pulled by triplets! Her stomach is heroic lasted several hours, but eventually could not stand it, and unhappy died of sepsis. At least she proved to Mr. Kay-Abergu that the hero-stomach can withstand more than 4 liters. Survivors Someone Takeru Kobayashi who swallowed a little over 8 kg of cow brains on some stupid competition. He had only 15 minutes at his disposal, so that he could gobble up and more, but the organizers decided to save his life. Similar events are held around the world, but not all register the mass of the eaten, so that, maybe, on the ground there are other champions who know them. Plus nobody runs with weights for people with bulimia, and therefore we, if understand, we don’t know the limits of their capabilities (and thank God). AND here the question arises: what is the result of training or congenital stomach elasticity?
Photo from open source Takeru Kobayashi, athletic minor (photo Metro News). In 2006, gastroenterologist David Metz of Pennsylvania University (USA) found time to study regular stomach firing contestant named Tim Janus (number the third in the grade sheets, pseudonym – Eater X) and stomach normal person after they sat and ate 12 minutes hot dogs. Due to the high content of barium in this product the scientist was able to observe the behavior of the stomach in a fluoroscope. Mr. Metz wanted to test the assumption that noble eaters have a stomach frees up space faster by opening the back door into the small intestine. It turned out that the opposite was true: after two hours, the stomach of the Eater-X got rid of only a quarter of what was eaten, while the stomach didn’t a remarkable person was empty by 75%. Somewhere after the seventh the last hot dog complained that a little more, and he would feel bad, although the fluoroscopy showed that the stomach was only a little stretched larger than the initial size. His rival, meanwhile, is at ease swallowed 36 sandwiches, for convenience, stuffing them into his mouth in pairs and not paying attention to the fact that the stomach rang out very much, taking almost the entire upper abdominal cavity. He did not feel either pain, neither nausea, nor satiety. Is it possible to say that this the result of regular overeating? Or was he born like that? Good questioning the robin-bobbin-drum, Mr. Metz concluded that in In this case, nature comes first. In general, the stomach such people are not bigger than usual, but he has amazing the ability to relax without harming oneself. In the same time One cannot but admit that this “gift” is only the beginning. The professional participant of such contests is Eric Denmark (Eric Red, seventh stomach of the USA) believes that without daily training dispense, otherwise the body simply will not be able to push outside of the possible. But why are the defense mechanisms silent? Why not regurgitation? Eric Red admits that actually … well … you just swallow once again, and that’s it. I must say that on these contests regurgitation is considered a defeat – fast, food climbed back. Such people train on the water. At the beginning of a career, recalls Red, he could hardly drink more than 4 liters (hello, doctor Kay Aberg, you were right), and now able to take on chest about 9 liters in a sitting position. This test is not so much physiological. (the stomach gradually stretches), how much psychological: it is necessary accustom yourself to the Rabelaisian sensation. It’s easy to stop says Mr. Denmark, it’s much harder to get yourself to continue. Just beg, do not follow this example. Prepared by NewScientist materials.
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