Buddhist Aug 18, 6:28 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Chewing manducate after colon surgery appearsto pace up the convey of connatural viscus function, Britishresearchers said on Monday.

Postoperative ileus, or the quality of the intestines topass contents, is a ordinary termination of abdominal surgery. Itcauses discompose and possibleness upbeat complications.

Chewing a whatever sticks of gum, however, could be an effectiveand low-cost solution.

Sanjay Purkayastha and colleagues at St. Mary's Hospital,London, analysed accumulation from fivesome trials involving 158 patientsin which whatever patients chewed unsugared manducate threesome nowadays a day.

They institute patients who chewed manducate took an cipher of 1.1fewer life to hit a viscus shitting compared with non-chewers.

Gum manduction is intellection to behave as a category of "sham feeding,"stimulating nerves in the digestive system, triggering therelease of gastrointestinal hormones and crescendo theproduction of secretion and secretions from the pancreas.

The researchers said boost large-scale studies wereneeded to set the genuine benefits of manducate manduction on reducingileus, a difficulty that is estimated to outlay $1 1000000000 (537million pounds) a assemblage in health-care expenditures in theUnited States alone.

Their findings were publicised in the book Archives ofSurgery.

Several take companies, meanwhile, hit been developingtreatments for the condition.

Entereg or alvimopan, from GlaxoSmithKline and Adolor Corp,was authorised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for thetreatment of post-operative blockage in May.

(Reporting by Ben Hirschler, redaction by Jewess Gabriel)