Gum will just digest like all other food. Its ok basically swallow your gum there is nothing wrong with swallowing your gum.

If the old wives tales about swallowing gum are true I'd probably be dead by now! There's nothing wrong with swallowing gum, it'd just be digested like any other food, in fact it's probably better to do that than spit it on the ground.

Well let's put it this way, if gum DID stay in your stomach for 7 years, then surely I would be dead. I've swallowed plenty of gum, and if it stayed in my stomach, I wouldn't have any space left to fit food in, or... I would be dead xD Swallow it, I'm 100% sure it'll be fine!

I think women should do it all the time.... Wait...., are we talking about the same thing? Ooh..., gum!!! Never mind ;-)

Well i have been doing it for like ever and nothing has ever happened to me. But when you do it, use your brain and swallow little bits at a time not the whole frickin' gum ball, that would just be stupid and dangerous. ;)

Agreed with the others, there is nothing wrong with swallowing gum it is a mother's tale that is gets stuck, the same as supposedly getting cramps from eating then swimming.

I was told by my biology teacher that it is not bad to swallow gum. I've swallowed it a couple of times without ill effect. However, I would rather throw it in the rubbish bin.

No, it won't stay in you for seven years. Thats crazy, that means nothing else would pass through your butt for the next seven years. At most it can make you consipated.