Read conflicting info on a bowel prep and luquid diet some days prior to tummy tuck as this will result in less food in my intestines so the organs and stomach will be flatter to help the surgeon pulling my ab muscles extremely tight?
October 25, 2015
Answer: Tummy tuck and bowel prep... is it necessary? I don't think your plastic surgeon wants to pull your muscles "extremely tight" but just firm enough to take up the laxity in your muscular fascial layer. Some may consider bowel prep and liquid diet overkill but it will make your abdominal contents less full and theoretically make it easier to tighten the abdominal fascia. These measure will also help with post operative constipation which you really want to avoid. I do not do bowel preps but do recommend Milk of Magnesia as directed after tummy tuck until the patient has a bowel movement to prevent constipation. The post operative constipation occurs as a result of narcotic pain medication which slows down the bowels. It is best to listen to your plastic surgeon and follow her/his directions.
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October 25, 2015
Answer: Tummy tuck and bowel prep... is it necessary? I don't think your plastic surgeon wants to pull your muscles "extremely tight" but just firm enough to take up the laxity in your muscular fascial layer. Some may consider bowel prep and liquid diet overkill but it will make your abdominal contents less full and theoretically make it easier to tighten the abdominal fascia. These measure will also help with post operative constipation which you really want to avoid. I do not do bowel preps but do recommend Milk of Magnesia as directed after tummy tuck until the patient has a bowel movement to prevent constipation. The post operative constipation occurs as a result of narcotic pain medication which slows down the bowels. It is best to listen to your plastic surgeon and follow her/his directions.
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October 28, 2015
Answer: Bowel prep before tummy tuck ??? As you can see different Plastic Surgeons have a different opinion about a bowel prep. Considering the facts: Bowel preps are necessary when you have Bowel surgery and maybe recommended if and when the abdominal cavity is entered as your bowels maybe "lazy" (ileus) after this type of surgeries. In an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) the abdominal cavity is not entered and "only" the abdominal wall (muscles) are tightened. Therefore a bowel prep in abdominoplasty maybe a choice (yours or the Surgeons) it is certainly not necessary.
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October 28, 2015
Answer: Bowel prep before tummy tuck ??? As you can see different Plastic Surgeons have a different opinion about a bowel prep. Considering the facts: Bowel preps are necessary when you have Bowel surgery and maybe recommended if and when the abdominal cavity is entered as your bowels maybe "lazy" (ileus) after this type of surgeries. In an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) the abdominal cavity is not entered and "only" the abdominal wall (muscles) are tightened. Therefore a bowel prep in abdominoplasty maybe a choice (yours or the Surgeons) it is certainly not necessary.
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