Why puking gives us so much relief after feeling sick and nauseous?
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Another answer I learned the hard way:
The upper sphincter of the stomach is on the same main nerve as the heart and lungs. Major irritation to that nerve can jame these critical signals to these vital organs and cause nausea and even loss of consciousness. It’s happened to me multiple times.
Twice in high school, I had a stomach flu/food poisoning kicked off by passing out- once on my science teacher’s rotund belly as a crumpled, the other time in the nurses’ office when I woke up in the waiting chair to pants and shoes covered in vomit.
Since then, I have nearly passed out from nausea a handful of times- once or twice while drinking, a few times while terrible hungover, but other times barely at all- one morning I finished a sip of kind of warm beer before driving someone to their parked car and getting hit with a brownout while exiting an offramp at 60 mph.
In theses cases, as soon as I puke the brownout/blackout subsides. It’s been explained to me that my stomach nerve jams up my breathing/heartbeat, which manifests as nausea at low levels and for me, it can be much more severe. (I also rarely get nauseous otherwise- iron stomach and no motion issues.)
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