enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. How to make your colonoscopy prep more effective and less ...

   www.aol.com/lifestyle/colonoscopy-prep-more...

   A colonoscopy is considered the best way to screen for colon cancer because it allows doctors to remove polyps — small growths in the colon — before they potentially turn cancerous.

3. What to Expect at a Colonoscopy

   www.aol.com/expect-colonoscopy-145438701.html

   The day before your colonoscopy, you can have a normal breakfast, but after that you have to limit your diet to clear liquids like broth and clear fruit juices, Salama says.

4. Colonoscopies 101: How to Prepare for Your First One

   www.aol.com/colonoscopies-101-prepare-first-one...

   Colonoscopies are performed under moderate sedation or anesthesia. You’ll be asleep, or near asleep, the whole time. The medications used will depend on a variety of factors, including where the ...

5. Low-fiber/low-residue diet - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-fiber/low-residue_diet

   The diet may be used as part of the bowel preparation before a diagnostic procedure such as colonoscopy or as a short-term therapy for acute stages of gastrointestinal illnesses such as Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, bowel obstruction, and ulcerative colitis.

6. Colonoscopy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonoscopy

   The day before the colonoscopy (or colorectal surgery), the patient is either given a laxative preparation (such as bisacodyl, phospho soda, sodium picosulfate, or sodium phosphate and/or magnesium citrate) and large quantities of fluid, or whole bowel irrigation is performed using a solution of polyethylene glycol and electrolytes.

7. Bland diet - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland_diet

   A bland diet allows the digestive tract to heal before introducing foods that are more difficult to digest. A bland diet is designed primarily to help patients recover from gastrointestinal conditions or other medical circumstances in which improved digestion would be essential. [2] It is not especially effective as a long-term weight loss diet ...

8. Magnesium citrate - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_citrate

   They are salts. One form is the 1:1 magnesium preparation in salt form with citric acid in a 1:1 ratio (1 magnesium atom per citrate molecule). It contains 11.33% magnesium by weight. Magnesium citrate (sensu lato) is used medicinally as a saline laxative and to empty the bowel before major surgery or a colonoscopy. It is available without a ...

9. Are colon cleanses necessary? Experts weigh in on potential ...

   www.aol.com/colon-cleanses-necessary-experts...

   Colon cleansing is not to be confused with bowel preparation, which is performed before a colonoscopy, he emphasizes. It involves consuming “liquids that help push through the stool and clean ...