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Lose the Accessories,
and Keep Your
Stomach Clear

If you wear corrective lenses, prepare
for your vision to be blurry before
you go under anesthesia: You need to
remove your contacts or eyeglasses for
surgery. Your jewelry needs to come off,
too, even if your surgical site is nowhere
near your bling.
It's all a precaution to make sure
those items don't interfere with your
surgeon's work or introduce contaminants to the operating table. And if your
surgeon touches your eye with a contact
inside it, it could move the lens or damage the cornea.
You'll also probably be told to avoid
eating for at least six hours before surgery: Anesthesia can cause nausea,
so the less that is in your stomach,
the better.
This rule applies for general
anesthesia-the kind that makes you
unconscious-as well as for monitored
sedation (twilight sleep) and regional
anesthesia. Monitored sedation can
have a range of effects, from mild
drowsiness to a deep sleep; regional
anesthesia typically numbs a part of
your body, but you remain conscious.
All of these types can cause nausea. In

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some cases, even local anesthetics-the
kind your dentist uses when filling a
cavity-can bring on an upset stomach.
"The danger of that is when someone is put asleep, or if they are having an epidural [regional anesthesia],
they might vomit and inhale some of
the stomach contents into their lungs,"
Daly says. "It would set up a likely

pneumonia and a very severe problem."
You might have heard that you
shouldn't drink water before surgery
either, but new recommendations indicate it may be safe to drink clear liquids
up to two hours before. The bottom
line? Listen to your surgeon's orders on
when to stop eating and drinking before
the procedure.



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