If you suffer from serious motion sickness, this might not be any surprise to you. It could be something you know all too well. Have you ever experienced a feeling of a sudden influx of saliva right before you felt the urge to vomit?
It turns out that it’s a bodily reflex. Vomiting is a deliberate response by the body orig
inally
meant to be a mechanism to purge toxins or other foreign bodies from
the stomach and esophagus. The problem is that stomach acid is highly
acidic, and not too good to have anywhere in the body besides the
stomach.
Therefore, without proper protection, vomiting can be harmful to the throat, mouth and teeth. That’s why we salivate before vomiting. It helps to dilute and rinse the acid as well as neutralize it due to its natural alkaline property. Of course when you’re repeatedly vomiting, this reflex sometimes fails to kick in.
Therefore, without proper protection, vomiting can be harmful to the throat, mouth and teeth. That’s why we salivate before vomiting. It helps to dilute and rinse the acid as well as neutralize it due to its natural alkaline property. Of course when you’re repeatedly vomiting, this reflex sometimes fails to kick in.
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