Sentences with phrase «stomach contents down»

Babywearing is beneficial for a baby with GER because it keeps her in an upright position, allowing gravity to work to keep her stomach contents down.

GERD may cause babies to either undereat (if they associate feeding with the after - feeding pain, or if it hurts to swallow) or overeat (because sucking keeps the stomach contents down in the stomach and because mother's milk is a natural antacid).

The upright positioning of babywearing helps keeps stomach contents down and promotes healthy digestion for your baby.

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He decided to put a tube down into William's stomach and pull out the contents to see if there was more blood.

Reflux can cause babies to undereat because they associate feeding with the pain they feel afterwards, or overeat because sucking keeps the contents of the stomach down and because milk is a natural antacid.

This is true for most kids with mild reflux because baby's gastrointestinal tract has had time to mature and the solids help to weigh down the stomach contents which helps to prevent splash back.

Also, having this position really helps the contents of their stomach stay down during their sleep as well as offer the better sleep for your babies who are suffering from the stuffy nose.

Pressing down on the abdomen forces the gator to give up its stomach contents.

Gastroesophageal reflux occurs when a person's stomach contents — including the gastric acids that help break down food — back up into the esophagus, the tube that connects the throat and stomach.

Flax seeds are also high in dietary fiber, including mucilaginous fiber, which slows down the emptying of stomach contents into the small intestine and helps improve nutrition absorption in the intestine.

Fat decreases stomach emptying rate, yet the upper stomach valve is not much of a valve, so when the lower stomach valve locks down to slow gastric emptying from fat, the churning of the stomach muscles force acid stomach contents through the upper valve causing GERD.

As food travels down from the esophagus and enters the stomach, the stomach's thick wall stretches to accommodate its additional contents.

Dogs who wolf down their grass tend to vomit it (and other stomach contents) within a matter of minutes.

To eat solid food, a fly vomits the contents of its stomach onto solids, which will break it down into a liquid that it can drink via its proboscis.