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Surgery
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Fasting guidelines |
Eating and drinking instructions before surgery, diagnostic testing, and/or sedation.
If you choose not to follow these instructions, your child’s surgery, diagnostic testing, and/or sedation, may be delayed or cancelled.
Eight (8) hours before surgery:
Stop milk products, citrus juices, candy, gum, greasy, oily, buttery, creamy foods, beef, chicken, pork, and fish. This also includes fast food.
Six (6) hours before surgery:
Stop all solids foods, baby food, cereal, and formula.
Four (4) hours before surgery:
Stop breastfeeding.
Three (3) hours before surgery:
Stop all clear liquids. Clear liquids include water, Kool-Aid ®, apple juice, popsicles, Jell-O ®, Pedialyte ® and Infalite ®.
*NOTE: Formula, breast milk, orange juice, and juices containing pulp are not considered clear liquids.
Please have a parent call 217-544-6464, ext., 56180 or 51081 from 6 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. if you have any questions about what you can eat or drink before your surgery. After 2:30 p.m., parents should call 44350 and ask for the anesthesiologist on call to be paged.
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