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Gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, but it isn’t harmful if you accidentally swallow it.

Folklore suggests that swallowed gum will sit in your stomach for seven years before being digested. Your body can not digest gum, but the gum doesn’t sit in your stomach. It progresses relatively intact through the digestive tract and is excreted in your stool, just like everything else you eat and drink.

On rare occasions, children who swallow large amounts of gum, combined with constipation, can cause intestinal blockage, a partial or complete blockage of the small or large intestine that prevents food, fluids, and gas from moving through the intestines in the normal way.