Drinking a little pre-op?

1-2 glasses of wine at a dinner party will not affect your surgery in any way, especially if it were still severaldays away.  As long as you consume alcohol in moderation you should be fine.  Good luck.

Dear lark1004,

Drinking
one or two glasses of wine prior to an operative procedure, as long as you are
metabolically and physiologically well, should not compromise your outcome in
any way. Excessive drinking, of course, puts
you at risk for long-term malnutrition as well as compromisability to clot
blood.

Small
amounts of alcohol consumed judiciously 10 to 12 days prior to surgery should
not affect the outcome of your surgery.

I
hope this information has been of some assistance and best of luck.

For
these types of questions, it is also important you ask your operative surgeon
as they may have a differing opinion and you want to ensure that their
operative procedures aren’t compromised by any preoperative nutritional decisions
you may have made.

Sincerely,

R.
Stephen Mulholland, M.D.

Certified
Plastic Surgeon

Yorkville,
Toronto