when your stomach is removed where does the food go?

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Removal of the stomach is called gastrectomy and it can be total (complete removal) or subtotal (partial removal).
If it is total, then the food would get dumped in duodenum (first part of the small intestine). Some experience light-headedness, heart palpitations or racing heart, sweating, and nausea and vomiting after a meal. These may be symptoms of "dumping syndrome," as food is rapidly "dumped" into the small intestine from the stomach.
After a gastrectomy, several abnormalities may develop that produce symptoms related to food intake. This happens largely because the stomach, which serves as a food reservoir, has been reduced in its capacity by the surgery.
If it is subtotal, parts of you stomach will be still there and functioning.

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straight to the intestinal tract, yummy.

out ur bung hole Is it possible to get you stomach removed?!?
If so. It would go straight to the next step in to digestive system. whatever that is. I forget!

your stomach cant be completely removed..a part of it can tho.in which case, your food would still go to your stomach thats pretty much impossible.considering your intestinal tract cannot digest the food properly..the food would just go straight there and pass through you.i dont really know the answer but it doesn't seem plausible to have your entire stomach removed.stomach stapling however still allows a portion of the stomach to use gastric juices to digest the foods..

It would go straight to the small intestine which is where the food normally goes after it exits the stomach.

If your stomach is removed, the esophagus would have to be connected to the duodenum, where the whole process would face a lot of trouble because the bolus (food) will not have received the HCl from the parietal cells from the stomach walls. Then the greatest part of the time the food will be there being digested. I guess that's what would happen..or you just die.

They would need to keep a small bit of the stomach, as the acid helps in the digesting of the vitimins and minerals that we all need.

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