Confidence votes 507. It takes anywhere from 1 to 3 hours for food to completely exit the stomach, depending on how much food you and what food you eat (protein takes longer to digest). Large meals take 2 to 5 hours.
Symptoms of Factor V Leiden include: 1  Having a first DVT or PE before 50 years of age. 2  Having recurring DVT or PE. 3  Having venous thrombosis in unusual sites in the body such as the brain or the liver.  Having a DVT or PE during or right after 1  pregnancy. Having a history of unexplained pregnancy loss in the second or third trimester.
Normally, factor V is a clotting protein. Anti-clotting proteins break up factor V, keeping it from forming clots when clotting isn't needed. Factor V Leiden makes it harder for anti-clotting proteins to break up factor V. This keeps factor V in the blood longer and increases the chance of clotting. If you have factor V Leiden, you inherited either one copy (heterozygous) or, rarely, two copies (homozygous) of the defective gene.