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<p><b>Gastric lavage</b>, also commonly called <b>stomach pumping</b> or <b>gastric washing</b> or <b>gastric suction</b>, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the <a href="page.php?w=stomach">stomach</a> using a tube. Since its first recorded use in the early 19th century, it has become one of the most routine means of eliminating poisons from the stomach. Such devices are normally used on a person who has ingested a <a href="page.php?w=poison">poison</a> or <a href="page.php?w=drug_overdose">overdosed</a> on a <a href="page.php?w=psychoactive_drug">drug</a></p><p>
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