Rumination syndrome is the chronic (long-term) repetitive, effortless regurgitation of recently swallowed food back into the mouth. For rumination syndrome to be diagnosed, all the following must be fulfilled for the last three months, with symptom onset at least six months prior to diagnosis:
- Persistent or recurrent regurgitation of recently digested food into the mouth.
- Retching doesn’t occur before regurgitation.
- No evidence of inflammatory (inflammation), anatomic (structural abnormality), metabolic or neoplastic (cancer) process that explains someone’s symptoms.
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