When a young person has a dual diagnosis of chemical dependency and a. bipolar disorder, most doctors choose to treat both conditions at once. This can be difficult unless the patient is in a hospital or other. residential situation, where presumably he will not have access to drugs or. alcohol. Doctors must also be careful about possible conflicts between. medications for bipolar symptoms and medications used for other. purposes.
3 to 3 hrs in stomach. 6 to 8 hrs for digestion. it stays in the stomach for 2 hours and then in the intestine for another 2 hours. the undigested food goes to the large intestine and the digested food goes to whole body through blood. Carbhydrates and proteins about 1 1/2 -2 hrs. Fats 2 hrs.
Large chunks of meat could stay in your stomach for 2 or 3 days, where plant based food usually is gone in a number of hours. If you need to get cleaned out for a colonoscopy, they put you on a liquid diet for 3 days to get all of the solids out of your system. know that if you go for a barium meal/stomach examination, you are told to fast for 12 hours before-your stomach should be empty after 12 hours. If not then that indicates a problem. The time for the food to get through your bowels, I'm not too sure.