Sugar and indigestion

[Dr Jekyll]

A bout of indigestion this afternoon was so bad a colleague asked me what was wrong. When I told him he said

'Swallow a spoonful of sugar, that'll fix it.'

Within a minute of swallowing the sugar there was a dramnatic improvement.

Coincidence? Placebo effect? Or could either the sugar or the action of swalowing it really have dealt with the indigestion?

[Halb]

Did he keep it in his pocketesses? It wasn't sugar, it was cocaine.

[RemainAllHoof]

Quite a drastic solution if it didn't work, isn't it? I wouldn't eat a spoonful of sugar if I were perfectly well. As to what happens, the sugar reacts with the acid and produces what? (My chemistry sucks so you'll have to fill in the gaps.)

[Halb]

Didn't Mary Poppins advise this?

[Dr Jekyll]

RemainAllHoof said:

I wouldn't eat a spoonful of sugar if I were perfectly well.

Why ever not? If you simply swallow it and don't try and chew it what's the problem?

[BliarOut]

Dr Jekyll said:

RemainAllHoof said:

I wouldn't eat a spoonful of sugar if I were perfectly well.

Why ever not? If you simply swallow it and don't try and chew it what's the problem?

We used to eat sugar lumps as kids If I've been cycling and run out of energy on the way over I still neck a couple of tablespoons of the stuff to get my levels back up quickly

[Du1point8]

BliarOut said:

Dr Jekyll said:

RemainAllHoof said:

I wouldn't eat a spoonful of sugar if I were perfectly well.

Why ever not? If you simply swallow it and don't try and chew it what's the problem?

We used to eat sugar lumps as kids If I've been cycling and run out of energy on the way over I still neck a couple of tablespoons of the stuff to get my levels back up quickly

And if you add half a teaspoon of salt to orange squash with a few spoon fulls of sugar you get a cheap isotonic drink.

[BliarOut]

Du1point8 said:

BliarOut said:

Dr Jekyll said:

RemainAllHoof said:

I wouldn't eat a spoonful of sugar if I were perfectly well.

Why ever not? If you simply swallow it and don't try and chew it what's the problem?

We used to eat sugar lumps as kids If I've been cycling and run out of energy on the way over I still neck a couple of tablespoons of the stuff to get my levels back up quickly

And if you add half a teaspoon of salt to orange squash with a few spoon fulls of sugar you get a cheap isotonic drink.

It gets more like Viz in here every day...

[RemainAllHoof]

BliarOut said:

It gets more like Viz in here every day...