Re: how do doctors make a hose go down to the stomach when inserted in the nose

Date: Wed Nov 15 22:18:08 2000
Posted By: William M. Rich, MD faculty,Univ. Med. Ctr
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 974073615.Me

Message:


The tube is flexible and bends to comform to the nasal passage into the 
throat and down the esophagus into the stomach. If you throwup, stomach 
contents sometimes come out the nose also. It is all connect through the 
back of the mouth.

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