There are some cases, however, in which people have managed to ignore their natural gag reflex and keep eating, causing their stomachs to rupture. In , " excessive over-eating " was reported as the cause of a year-old man's stomach rupturing. These people may have a history of disordered eating and have become accustomed to their stomach muscles stretching beyond their normal limits. Their brains also ignore signals telling them to stop eating.
When your stomach is filled with too much stuff and you don't vomit, all of that mass gets pushed up against the stomach's walls and can lead to a rupture. You can learn more about digestion and what happens after food enters the mouth in the video above. It eventually perforated, necessitating emergency surgery.
Can I die from overeating? Yes, there are a couple of reports of people dying from over-indulging. This is very rare, but it happens. One person died from tearing their oesophagus, the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach and others have actually ruptured their stomach by over-eating. One of the largest Christmas meals ever consumed by one person was an American woman in consume 50 lbs of turkey, 30 lbs of ham, 35 lbs of potatoes, vegetables, and stuffing, which was then washed down with eight pints of gravy and relish and followed by dessert.
This meal consisted of 30, calories—to put this into context, males and females are recommended to consume 2, and 2, calories daily, respectively. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Read the original article. By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy. Skip to navigation Skip to content. Discover Membership. Editions Quartz. Speaking of strong stomachs, you'd best have one in order to read this next paragraph. If vomiting isn't happening, all that food and fluid still has to go somewhere.
The increasing volume of stuff in the gut puts pressure on the stomach's walls, so much so that the tissue weakens and tears, sending the stomach contents into the body and causing infection and pain, Vreeman says. Surgical intervention is necessary to repair a ruptured stomach and save the patient's life. In particular, she says, anorexics or bulimics may be at risk.
In fact, Cedars-Sinai , the non-profit hospital in Los Angeles, actually lists this as a "symptom" of bulimia: "In rare cases, a person may eat so much during a binge that the stomach bursts or the esophagus tears.
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