Did you know swallowing saliva or air became difficult after several rehearsals?
It’s almost impossible to swallow your saliva or air more than 3 times in a row. At the end of the second time, not only begins to become difficult to produce saliva, but also you feel your throat tightening and you don’t feel like swallowing. If you still do this a third time, it’s highly unlikely to make it a fourth or fifth time unless you really fight against your reflexes.
The peristaltic mechanism of the throat has its limits.
It’s quite likely, but in principle, for the majority of people, making this move many times in a row is becoming harder and harder. To swallow, we activate the peristaltic throat sequence. Peristalism or peristaltic movements are the activation of a set of muscle contractions necessary to advance an object in a hollow organ. In this case, it’s about the throat here.
Swallowing requires 22 muscle action. When you swallow a food or drink, your muscles are less demanded because of the weight and consistency of what you put in your mouth. On the other hand, when you swallow saliva or air, more muscles are working, causing this reaction in your body, asking you to stop. Some may go so far as to feel a desire to vomit if they force themselves to keep swallowing air after 7 or 8 times.
First, know that there are two types of swallowing: dry swallowing, when we swallow our saliva only, and the other, the one that allows us to carry liquids, masticated food or anything else we want to move to the stomach.
Important:Pour swallowing, the 22 muscles of our throat must contract to bring down the contents of our esophagus. This action is called esophageal peristalism.
When you swallow ′′ dry ", muscles have nothing to grab, which makes them work harder than if you were swallowing a bite of a delicious cheeseburger.
And so when trying not to swallow anything many times in a row, the muscles get tired.
Besides, it’s impossible to breathe at the same time as you swallow. This is a good deal, to avoid projecting what we are swallowing into our lungs.
This is why if you try to swallow multiple times in a row, you may feel like you’re running out of air.