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What food or drink will help clean the esophagus?
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No cleaning required: Unlike the colon, the esophagus has a mechanism of "cleaning" itself through a process called peristalsis. In health, there should essentially no residual fluid or liquid in the esophagus after a few swallows.
Answered 2/26/2014
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