If you have surgery and they put air in your abdomen, where does that air go?

If you then step then it helps, but how does that air get out and somehow get into your lungs and come out with a fart?

Asker: Seb, 10 years old

Answer

Best,

During such an operation, no air, but carbon dioxide is blown into your abdomen. It’s the same gas that gives the fizz in cola or lemonade.

The gas during the operation is in between your intestines (not in your intestine, because then it would indeed come out as a fart). At the end of the operation, all the gas will be released from your abdomen through the opening it was inhaled into. The little gas left between your intestines will be very easily absorbed into your bloodstream, after which you simply exhale.

kind regards,

If you have surgery and they put air in your abdomen, where does that air go?

Answered by

Dr Jasper Verguts

Gynecology-Obstetrics

Catholic University of Leuven
Old Market 13 3000 Leuven
https://www.kuleuven.be/

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