Body & Soul17 mins ago
What Would Happen If I Was Swallowed Whole?
Lets just say that i could somehow be shrunk to a couple of inches tall. What would it be like if i was gently swallowed alive by my girlfriend? How would it feel? How long would it take to reach her stomach? How long could i survive in there? What exactly would happen to me?
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The big problem that seems to concern most is the lack of oxygen. Still, with reduced volume the surface area of your body that absorbs oxygen grows.
The really tiny creatures do not need any breathing system and smaller ones rely a lot on the outer layers of body which has much better oxygen/CO2 ration
than lungs. What about oxygen in the stomach? Not much of it there as oesophagus does not act as air vent.
Still, due to diffusion it gets in there just as it gets into our bodies from air.
If snakes have swallowed their pray alive it is known to have kept moving for days and snake's gullet is not a windpipe either.
The upper part of oesophagus can crush you, but since down the windpipe crossing the way down should be smooth.
Now comes the churning part which would not crush you (that is what teeth are for) as it's main coal is to mix eaten stuff with gastric acid and
digestive enzymes. After all, if you puke and have swallowed grains of corn before, they are not in a crushed state.
All in there is mostly broken apart by teeth.
The acid environment in our stomachs is not for digestion, it is for activating the enzymes that do the digestion job.
Acid itself would destroy the molecules we need too. If she had taken antiacids there would be reactions going on producing CO2 and then the suffocation
would be sure. If you puke on yourself you would not start to dissolve - it is just unpleasant, as the enzymes in stomach are limited and act mostly on
exposed wood, while skin is meant to protect us from harm. The gastric acid can digest our bodies when it gets into oesophagus too often, but that is a
long exposure. Most of the food stays in stomach for some hours and goes on, an object like you would go on even quicker.
Lizards that swallow a pray whole digest it for a long time and still can't dissolve hair and skin components, our digestion does not differ much.
Only snakes can digest the ceratins and your GF is not a snake, I hope.
Of course, there is not much to feel down there. Darkness, humid heat. Not enough oxygen to keep you active.
You would just fall asleep and her body does the rest. You would be sleeping, not kicking, not causing any reactions by her body.
No gnawing one's way out any more.
So I would say there is no quick death guarantee. What happens depends on if she has recently eaten or would rink, as drowning is a very likely option.
Food means gastric acids in large volumes, water drowns you the same, no matter what size you are.
Emetics would make the stomach to produce more gastric acids first to dilute them so any rescue attempt would be sure drowning.
But if she is hungry and stomach is empty you would probably survive the stomach and go to the intestines alive.
And that is the end. Intestines produce much greater variety of enzymes to deal with proteins, bile helps to dissolve the lipids that make up our defense,
alcaline environment down there is much more harmful. You would be quickly dissolved, then spend some 20 hours giving out nutrients to her body,
and then end up in the toilet pot, in the same condition as all the other food she has eaten.
The really tiny creatures do not need any breathing system and smaller ones rely a lot on the outer layers of body which has much better oxygen/CO2 ration
than lungs. What about oxygen in the stomach? Not much of it there as oesophagus does not act as air vent.
Still, due to diffusion it gets in there just as it gets into our bodies from air.
If snakes have swallowed their pray alive it is known to have kept moving for days and snake's gullet is not a windpipe either.
The upper part of oesophagus can crush you, but since down the windpipe crossing the way down should be smooth.
Now comes the churning part which would not crush you (that is what teeth are for) as it's main coal is to mix eaten stuff with gastric acid and
digestive enzymes. After all, if you puke and have swallowed grains of corn before, they are not in a crushed state.
All in there is mostly broken apart by teeth.
The acid environment in our stomachs is not for digestion, it is for activating the enzymes that do the digestion job.
Acid itself would destroy the molecules we need too. If she had taken antiacids there would be reactions going on producing CO2 and then the suffocation
would be sure. If you puke on yourself you would not start to dissolve - it is just unpleasant, as the enzymes in stomach are limited and act mostly on
exposed wood, while skin is meant to protect us from harm. The gastric acid can digest our bodies when it gets into oesophagus too often, but that is a
long exposure. Most of the food stays in stomach for some hours and goes on, an object like you would go on even quicker.
Lizards that swallow a pray whole digest it for a long time and still can't dissolve hair and skin components, our digestion does not differ much.
Only snakes can digest the ceratins and your GF is not a snake, I hope.
Of course, there is not much to feel down there. Darkness, humid heat. Not enough oxygen to keep you active.
You would just fall asleep and her body does the rest. You would be sleeping, not kicking, not causing any reactions by her body.
No gnawing one's way out any more.
So I would say there is no quick death guarantee. What happens depends on if she has recently eaten or would rink, as drowning is a very likely option.
Food means gastric acids in large volumes, water drowns you the same, no matter what size you are.
Emetics would make the stomach to produce more gastric acids first to dilute them so any rescue attempt would be sure drowning.
But if she is hungry and stomach is empty you would probably survive the stomach and go to the intestines alive.
And that is the end. Intestines produce much greater variety of enzymes to deal with proteins, bile helps to dissolve the lipids that make up our defense,
alcaline environment down there is much more harmful. You would be quickly dissolved, then spend some 20 hours giving out nutrients to her body,
and then end up in the toilet pot, in the same condition as all the other food she has eaten.
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