Background and Aim Chewing gum proposal has been used in surgery to reduce postoperative ileus for more than 10 years; however, the efficacy remains imprecise. The aim of this study was to ...

Moreover, we included all abdominal surgery and then performed subgroup analysis based on different indication of surgery. There is sufficient evidence of 17 RCTs to conclude that chewing gum ...

"Sometimes after surgery or if you've been in hospital for a really long time, your intestines go on strike leaving you bloated and constipated, this is known as paralytic ileus. "The reason ...