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Does Foam Come Out Even After Several Hours Of A Person's Death?

My mothers was a diabetic and often got high blood pressure after dinner, On the night she died, she was with my sister in law, she felt high blood pressure, ask my sister in law to call her daughter, but she couldnot call, due to dead mobile battery, then my mother condition got worse, she started feeling hard breathing, and then start screaming. and few minutes afterward when some neighbor reached there by hearing that screaming (which was actually sound of hard breathing), they found a foam coming out of my mothers mouth, my mother told them last words, " i dont want to die, save me", and then bacame unconscious, after half hour when they reached hospital, doctors declared her death. almost after 16 hours we buried her, but even at the time of burying, there was foam coming out of her mouth, please explain the coming out of foam from mouth after several hours of death.
Regards Fayyaz
Fri, 4 Apr 2014
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Hi,
After death, the stomach containts are degenerated,fermented to form gas . This mixes with liquid in stomach to form foam. Due to natural tendency , the gases tend to move up through the throat & comes out of mouth as foam. This process continues depending on amount & type of stomach at death.
To avoid the bad smell/infection, usually the facial openings are closed by cotton plug after death.
Thanks.
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Does Foam Come Out Even After Several Hours Of A Person's Death?

Hi, After death, the stomach containts are degenerated,fermented to form gas . This mixes with liquid in stomach to form foam. Due to natural tendency , the gases tend to move up through the throat & comes out of mouth as foam. This process continues depending on amount & type of stomach at death. To avoid the bad smell/infection, usually the facial openings are closed by cotton plug after death. Thanks.