Got A Blockage? Drink A Coke!

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Got A Blockage? Drink A Coke!

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Doctors are using Coca-Cola to treat a painful stomach condition, sparing patients from surgery.

They have discovered that the fizzy drink is highly effective at dealing with a condition known as a gastric phytobezoar.
A variety of treatments are available to treat it, from lasers and non-surgical endoscopies to the last resort of full surgery.

Now, new research has shown that Coca-Cola has a success rate of more than 90 per cent in treating the condition.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... kages.html

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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THANKS, Tex

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Will pass that info to my brother. Sounds like a human "hairball"!
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Oops

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I forgot he swallowed the pill camera. He had other tests that showed no blockage but he has something that mimics Ogilvie Syndrome his doctor said.
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Hmmmmm. If it's not being caused by a drug, maybe he's just low on serotonin.

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Thanks, Tex, I will let him know about that possibility.
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Post by coryhub »

Makes sense as Coke clears clogged drains. I love the odd coke but try not to drink too many.
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