Rumination syndrome is not a very serious condition and rumination syndrome is not life threatening.
Although the problems that develop with rumination syndrome can be very debilitating.
Some of the problems that can be debilitating with rumination syndrome are a heightened GI sensitivity, which results in severe abdominal pain, bloating, nausea and or pressure which can make having food or fluid in the stomach intolerable.
If rumination syndrome is left untreated, it can result in bad breath and sometimes lead to choking and cause abdominal pain and abdominal discomfort.
The age that rumination syndrome occurs is often 3 to 8 months of age.
Although rumination syndrome can also occur in anyone of any age, but it's typical onset occurs in infancy.
Even adults and children and teenagers can get rumination syndrome, although rumination syndrome is considered more rare in older children and adults when compared to infants.
Rumination syndrome is a relatively rare syndrome that occurs in 1 in 125 people of the general population.
Although the actual number of people with rumination syndrome is likely underestimated as rumination syndrome is also under recognized.
Rumination syndrome affects children and some adults and causes an automatic regurgitation of recently eaten food.
And a person with rumination syndrome will often eat meals normally.
Rumination syndrome is a type of functional gastrointestinal disorder and also eating disorder that causes you to experience habitual regurgitation and throwing up after eating food.
Within minutes of eating food, the food will automatically come back up from your stomach and into your mouth.
The causes of rumination syndrome are thought to be both psychological and physical which are said to trigger rumination syndrome.