What will happen if you swallow your gum?

I was always told that swallowing chewing gum is harmful to my health. Have your parents told you that it would stay in your stomach for years? The thing is that no one seems to actually know what really happens.


Imagine it’s just happened and you’ve swallowed your gum, intentionally or not. Would it stay in your digestive tract forever?

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130 Comments
Leida Toro
I always thought if you farted, it would make a bubble.
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Jun 25, 2016 8:55PM
Carole Jean McLendon
If it were harmful I would have been dead years back...and here I be...nearly 75 and still swallowing it from time to time...
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Jun 25, 2016 8:25PM
John Ostojich
Never spit it out on a hot sidewalk or parking lot.
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Jun 25, 2016 8:41PM
Franklin C. Stogner
I think that you will fart bubbles.
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Jun 25, 2016 8:46PM
Catryna White
My mother told me the same thing. I never believed it. And, then my daughter swallowed a big wad of bubblegum. I found it in her diaper the next day.
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Jun 25, 2016 8:14PM
Richard Sutton
Mary Ford that makes cents to me.
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Jun 26, 2016 12:13AM
Janis Walzem
Janis Walzem
My mom told me. "Never swallow your gum, it sticks to your stomach."
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Jun 25, 2016 8:07PM
AskMrsP
Sally Onyett, I always swallow it too and it's done me no harm to date (as far as I know!)
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Aug 1, 2023 5:39AM
Sally Onyett
I’ve swallowed gum several times a day for 40+ yrs and it never wrapped round my heart or blocked my stomach or any of the other old wives tales you hear. It passes thru the same as any other food that doesn’t digest like sweetcorn , peas and mushrooms 😂👍
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Apr 8, 2023 6:07PM
Jessie Franklin
I used to swallow gum a lot. I just didn't want to know I had gum in my mouth.
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Jan 29, 2023 5:38PM
Pat Roberts
My mum used to tell us it would wrap around your heart. We didn’t believe her.
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Jan 8, 2023 9:01AM
Doris Dallaire
Like others who commented, my mother told me it would stick to my stomach. I didn’t swallow it often but after she told me that, I never did. I believed her!
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Sep 17, 2022 9:52PM
Cyclepro
Well, As long as it does not gum up the works!
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Jul 21, 2022 4:55PM
John W Shreve
I used to bite my fingernails and swallow them. My mother said that if I swallowed my gum, the fingernails would stick in it and it would bounce around it my stomach and put holes in it.
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Mar 13, 2022 6:19PM
lmoores
I was always told not to swallow my gum as it will stick in my tummy.
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Nov 22, 2021 2:22AM
deborahpmercer
Leida Toro, I can fairly say my life has been enriched by that statement!
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Sep 29, 2020 2:39AM
mmariano
I did swallow a gum some years back.I experienced neither pain nor any disruption/inconvenience. I am still very much around.Just the same don't swallow gum intentionally/purposely. As they say there is always a first time.
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Dec 18, 2019 10:22PM
Trisha Baumann
Leida Toro, i suppise you are half right, its a bubble thats burst as it escapes
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Nov 25, 2019 7:24PM
Helen Allard
Leida Toro, I never heard that but I I would have believed it when I was a kid...😂
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Jun 2, 2019 9:54AM
Debra Ohryn
Debra Ohryn, Sorry ridiculous that your appendix would be full of chewed gum
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May 6, 2019 5:00PM
Debra Ohryn
That is Totally ridiculous
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May 6, 2019 4:58PM
gjbrodkey
Used to chew, haven't for years - no problems
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Apr 25, 2019 9:14AM

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