![]() ![]() The first prep solution bottle should be drunk sometime after work the evening before your exam. jello, chicken broth, popsicles, sorbet, juice without pulp, Gatorade, Miso (without the tofu!). Blended foods do not qualify. Also, no dairy and no protein. Be creative with your clear liquid restriction: anything water-based that light shines through counts as a clear liquid, e.g. Don’t eat a lot of bulky fiber, especially seeds – we are always seeing chia, sesame, quinoa, flax seeds, etc., in an otherwise clean colon, and they clog up the scope and hide small polyps, so you should try to cut them out of your diet for 2-3 days before your colonoscopy.Īfter breakfast, you should have nothing except clear liquids until your exam the next day. The morning of the day of the prep you can have a light breakfast. ![]() You will receive instructions to take half the solution in the evening and half of it very early in the morning. We have also found that the “split prep” technique works much better than taking the whole preparation the evening before the exam. The result is that the clear liquids you drink along with them will act as a kind of “colonic” from above – flushing through the colon and washing it clean. These solutions are not really drugs since they don’t get absorbed into the bloodstream but remain in the colon. They contain medications that, when taken orally, will hold water in the bowel so it does not get absorbed into the body. Our office regularly uses one of two similar solutions: Suprep or Clenpiq. ![]()
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