FLU, FEVER, VOMITING, DIARRHEA: 1  If your symptoms include fever and / or vomiting, contact your doctor. The strains of flu this season can be life threatening. 2  If you are vomiting, don't eat or drink for up to 1 hour after the latest instance. Then try 2 ounces of water or flat lemon-lime carbonated beverages.
GI Motitility In the Stomach. 1  Two types of movement (motility) occur in the stomach: peristalsis and segmentation (mixing). 2  The contractions occur about every 20 seconds and proceed from the body of the stomach toward the pyloric sphincter. 3  About 20% of the contractions in the stomach are peristaltic waves.
The wave-like muscle contractions in the organs of the digestive tract that push food into the stomach and then to the intestines. Peristalsis starts in the esophagus and ends when digested food is eliminated as waste. peristalsis the process of contraction and relaxation by which products are moved through the alimentary canal.