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Both protect from gastric rupture: The nausea limits how much more you can eat, while the vomiting will decompress the stomach.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

We will decompress slowly, like divers coming up from deep-sea work.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry