a major milestone in healing from
intestinal surgery is the ability to
pass food through the body from the
stomach to the gall block with the
intestine itself to deliver anytime you
open the abdomen that give you what they
call it in Elise it's me that the
intestine is not functioning normally
after the surgery the ileus refers to
the duration which the digestive system
is frozen it can take two or three days
before a patient has restored bowel
function up to a week or more in some
cases involving colon cancer but the
process must be achieved before a
patient will be released from the
hospital the problem with this
intestinal surgery is when we put the
patient to sleep even the intestine goes
to sleep patient wakes up but the
intestine stays asleep anything that
speeds that the digestive system is a
welcome relief to achieve that some
doctors are giving gum ago using chewing
gum in the hopes that will restart or
stimulate gastrointestinal recovery
chewing the gum it's only benefit and we
don't have any complication that
increases with the chewing gums so we
are very easy to give people to come a
new study found giving post-op patients
gum four times a day
cut the ileus from 51 hours to 43 in
less invasive laparoscopic procedures
downtime may be reduced by 20 hours so
we are trying everything to make sure
that the intestine is back to normal
function before we send the patient home
anything to get the digestive juices
flowing that's inexpensive and tasty to
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