Any tips when i'm prepping for my colonoscopy surgery?

What to expect: The type of prep you use will give you very little variation in the end result.......Diarrhea. You should however make every attempt to follow the directions to a 't' so that you can lessen the chance of a bad bowel prep causing you to have to repeat the test or obtain another form of testing. Generally speaking, bowel preps are now in split dosing. Some the night before, some the morning of.

Drink: Plenty of water, mix the bowel prep in ginger ale or apple juice if it taste nasty.

Hydrate: Different providers will use different techniques to cleanse the bowel before either a colonoscopy or a surgery. All of these techniques cause flushing of the colon so that contamination is minimized. This leaves the patient in a dehydrated state, so that blood pressure changes with sedation or anesthesia are magnified. I would suggest increasing you clear liquid intake in the 24 hours before the.