Here are three insights:
1. Researchers randomly allocated patients into two groups — a gum-chewing group and a control group.
2. The gum-chewing group was asked to chew one stick of sugarless gum during the pause interval of drinking the polyethylene glycol solution.
3. The gum-chewing group reported significantly lower abdominal discomfort, nausea and vomiting and took a shorter time to ingest the polyethylene glycol solution than the control group.
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