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What is pre-operative bowel preparation? what do you have to do?
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See below: Pre-operative bowel preparation is used for colon surgery or possibly in gynecology pelvic surgery. It is a combination of clear liquid diet, drinking laxatives to clean the colon, and oral antibiotics to reduce the bacterial count in the colon. This is done to reduce risks of infection or help improve colon surgery safe healing.
Answered 9/7/2019
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