Dear all:

I've been searching  online with no great success and I don't have that great of physiology 
texts at home.  Does anyone have a reference for the normal (unstretched and distended) 
capacity of the adult stomach?  I found a reference for 2-4 liters which sounds enormous to 
me. I'm doing a comparison of the newborn and the adult stomach graphically and when 
you compare even a day 3 stomach capacity to 2-4 liters --- the newborn stomach size 
almost doesn't register on the graph!  Which makes it really good for showing why infants 
need to feed frequently.  But I really don't think the 2-4 liters is something normal adults 
drink at one time.  Its making me feel bloated just thinking about that quantity of liquid.

Best, Susan Burger

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