• Question: what happens to your stomach when you get sick

    Asked by 975heam38 to Pattie, Karl, Ivor, Fiona, Eoin on 27 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: Ivor Geoghegan

      Ivor Geoghegan answered on 27 Feb 2018:

      Well when you eat something, it goes down your throat into your stomach in a process called peristalsis: a wave of muscle contractions push the food into your stomach. When you vomit, food leaves your stomach in a process called reverse peristalsis, so a wave of muscle contractions push food out of your stomach, up your throat, and out your mouth

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